[Havoc]

Modern government and its cannibal practitioners wouldn't know a moral wrong from a kazoo.

I noted what it is there for. Not how you view it or how some of abused it. Some of those people have no more sense than those they lead. Elections are for putting decent and upright people in office, not charismatic devils. And how do you know where my faith is. If you think it's in government, you're silly as well as presumptuous.

[headsonpikes]

"I noted what it is there for."

You presumptuous simpleton. There is no 'higher purpose' for government.

"By their fruits ye shall know them."

The purpose of the modern state, so far as I can observe from history, is to exploit the citizens for the advantage of the rulers.

Expecting the state to show 'moral and ethical leadership' or anything like it must be the product of faith, since it has no foundation in empiricism.