I agree and so, I believe does Dennis Prager who long ago made the point that one's politics ultimately depend on his view of the nature of man. Liberals believe man is perfectible, that is, educable or subject to being managed with the proper stimulus. Think of the Skinner box.
This fits well with the liberal idea that the building block of society is not the individual but the mass guided, of course, by liberal elites.
We are always hearing the siren of the latest left-wing Messiah. Whether it is the Savior Franklin Roosevelt, the speed-reading genius John F. Kennedy, the honest Jimmy Carter who would never lie to us, the boy genius from Arkansas, or the latest, The Black Messiah. So it is that the left chronically whores after the man who will fix everything.
The founding fathers were not so deceived. They were Christians or at least steeped in the Christian tradition and they were fully aware of what they might call the fallen nature of man and which we might call his weakness of character. So they sought to structure a government which would be as nearly as possible immune from the corruption of man. They did this with checks and balances and separation of powers etc. all well known to us. But the founders were also not myopic enough to put their faith in the system alone. They were fully aware that an efficient Republican democracy requires a moral people and even the founders' constitutional constructs were insufficient to defend their new Republic from the ambitions of corrupt men.
Hence their idea that education should be primarily moral education but the left rejects this epistemology of morality for one of relativism.
To the degree that the left takes over our institutions like our schools and our churches, they will take over the government.
But the subject of for us now is what to do structurally about our failing Republic and I know you support structural reform from without Washington through the Article V process, as do I.
We must give moral men a moral system
