“If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?” –James Madison

A very clear—and truthful—analysis by Mr. Madison, and it explains in a few words, the problem with most governments in history, and that includes the current American government.  As I have noted countless times, the American Founders said that the country cannot succeed without a virtuous people electing virtuous leaders.  Well, people elected Eric Swalwell, who is the epitome of vice and immorality.  Swalwell is human scum, but what does his election to Congress tell us about the people who put him there in the first place?  And do we really think the people of his Congressional district are going to learn from their folly and replace Swalwell with a paragon of Christian virtue?  Don’t hold your breath.  To Democrats, Swalwell’s great sin was he got caught.

America has a severe leadership crisis today—people who, like Eric Swalwell, cannot govern themselves and thus are horribly failing the American people.  America’s greatest crisis currently is moral, a failure to learn from God and history, and it extends from top to bottom.  Actually, it starts at the bottom, for a virtuous people would never have elected Eric Swalwell in the first place.  Or, for that matter, any other member of today’s Democratic Party who believe that woman can kill their unborn children, that unlimited perversion and promiscuity (until it hurts them politically) is culturally acceptable, that men can become women, and visa-versa, simply by saying they are, who believe that men can “marry” men and women can “marry” women, that children’s lives can be destroyed, mutilated for life for a........

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