If we shrug at public dishonesty — if we normalize candidates who think that grabbing power makes it okay to say whatever they need to in the short-term — then we will be changed by it.
Sadly Mr. Sasse skirts a fundamental truth that underlies his whole argument.
Voting is not going to somehow restore us to what he desires, neither will there be fealty to a Constitution a population is either ignorant of, indifferent of or hostile towards.
Religion and morality are the only pillars upon which the Constitution can stand or operate.
Since we have thrown God and the Christian religion out of the culture wholesale - we are become a corrupted and wicked people no longer constrained by the moral guideposts of religion. Lying and deceitfulness is now seen as a clever virtue and no amount of voting is going to fix that.
We are become a wicked people in a shell of a nation that has already been fundamentally transformed. Getting back to what the Founders intended and having candidates that share the kinds of moral values Sasse would like to see for our vets and our children, requires what the Christian Church in America has refused to do and had already surrendered: Instilling shame, judgement and insisting on adherence to God's Laws as supreme and sovereign in the culture.
If we will not be governed by God, we will be ruled by the tyrants and tyranny of men who will supplant divine law with the morality of men, whereby lies and deceits are just means to an end and perfectly acceptable.
You cannot have liberty or a Constitution as we once had without morality, virtue and scripture. The candidates that rise up to pursue power will wax worse and worse as our entire society becomes more wicked, evil, ignorant and self-absorbed, and is in reality nothing but a reflection of the people we have become.
Trump and The Mao Pantsuit reflect what we are become.
