Only fools put their trust in Politicians........rather, we vote for the men who best meet our standards and principles with a history that supports his positions.
The only thing we can control is our vote. Everything else surrounding an election is out of our hands unless we’re serving.....or...as Jim does in running a great website to influence those who are voting and vet the candidates.
We, as a nation of people, are doing at the polls what a Republic does in their fight to maintain, retain and or restore the freedoms of this country and this nation. We are “FOR” these Freedoms and “FOR” this country.
You would do well to listen to the fourth verse of the National Anthem as sung by a Patriot which caused everyone to stand...and remember where our Trust lays and who establishes this nation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0fQd858cRc
But doesn’t your own opening sentence bid fair to contradict itself?
There are some “standards and principles” that we should never have been expecting from a secular authority; that, in fact churches have permitted to be a crutch that excuses them from addressing them in house.