Who is Teaching Morality?

 I have learned, settling back in America after traveling around the world playing piano on cruise ships, the Conditions of America have tumbled.  I was fortunate in my life to have caring, productive, honest, Christian parents.  It makes all the difference.  Your church-going experience is what develops your moral conscience.  Where else in America are they going to tell you what is right and wrong, and that empathy for your fellow man is important?  Schools are not tasked with that.  Parents are, but teachers can be a great positive influence in children's lives.  America has regressed to a state of utter desperation, and considering our current political climate, it is understandable.  When your government breaks up with you, it is difficult.  You are on your on.  That is the best way to think about it.  America is tough and has proven strong.  Perhaps our antagonists have underestimated the American people.  I have learned that life is war, and there is no free ride.  Even if you have paid a multitude of dues you're better to hit the ground running each and every day.  This is the ethos of the military, and I should know living in Fayetteville, North Carolina.  After watching the movie "The Great Santini" penned by novelist and South Carolinian Pat Conroy, it dawned on my that fighting men by profession need to fight.  That does not mean America has to create a war to satisfy those enlisted in the military.  When we do go to war it is not for those souls.  Those souls are the sacrificial lambs for the evil.  War is for the defense industry and politicians.  It is for those with and in power as a tool for manipulating the global economy.  They may enjoy fighting in an overly glamorized way.  Anything can be painted as patriotic, just, and noble.  The reality is the evil use these values to manipulate the good and profit from their sacrifice, often their lives.  It is sickening.  If you have no Christian ethic or spiritual conscience, and God is absent from our lives, there it little to propel us to do good.  We are surrounded by evil.  It is not the majority, but it has become the people in power and with control of our lives.  That would be the State Legislature and Congress.  I am a fair person, and I feel everyone deserves a chance to prove themselves.  I said this about Donald J. Trump, and I said it about Pete Hegseth.  The latter has a formidable resume and a plethora of active duty military experience.  He was an intelligent student and a mover and shaker.  To me these are positive attributes.  Should they not translate to a position of military leadership?  None of it means anything today, because the Republican Party has adopted a platform of deception and deceit for the sheer gaining of political power.  They lie, and there is nothing lower.  A democratic nation cannot sustain without honesty, empathy, and honor.  It is interesting a group decided that the premise, history, and implementation of an idea by our Founding Fathers which built America, was fodder for challenge.  They would just try to infiltrate through government by the people, which was becoming rule by the rich.  Subtly, without our knowledge, and with the reckless abandonment of federal regulatory laws, wealthy corporate practitioners lobbied and invaded Washington, DC.  Big money used its influence to buy America.  That begins with one person at a time.  It is no different than Communism, a party system simply that picks, pays, and rewards its constituents.  The Free Market is not a part of the picture.  It is an Oligarchy, and it has its minions.  There is a social hierarchy, and the lower and middle class are not important.  The problem is, as I have learned, having money does not equate to being intelligent or good.  This is the problem of America, and it will not be solved without the presence of God.  He is the only one strong enough to command the kind of obedience it will require to mend America.  Is it possible for the evil to recant?  The Bible says this is God's talent.  We need it now.