I have been pounding this for literally decades and I’m going to continue to pound it as long as the good Lord gives me breath and the ability to do so: our Founding Fathers created a limited government, but one that required virtuous people. And the latter is FAR more important than the former. And today’s America has very little of either, on either side of the aisle.

Democrats are certainly the greatest problem America has right now, but they aren’t the only problem. I see far too many foul-mouthed, promiscuous, pleasure-oriented, unvirtuous Republicans in the country now to ever make the nation great again. Some people need to get the logs out of their own eyes before they start talking about the specks in other people’s eyes. If the only thing that distinguishes us from Democrats is certain political beliefs and how the government spends its money, then we are no better people than they are. And that may be why we rarely persuade any of them to join us.

Let’s review what our Founders said the American people need to be.

1. John Adams stated in an October 11, 1798, letter to the Massachusetts Militia: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." If you limit the power that government has over people (which our Founders did because they certainly did not, for one moment, trust government power in the hands of anyone), then something must restrict the wicked deeds that unrestrained men will do to each other. Adams very plainly stated in the quote above that America’s Founders didn’t intend government to be the major entity in human restraint, but “a........

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