The Founding Fathers continually worried ...

The Founding Fathers continually worried that the populace might not be sufficiently "virtuous" to be able to maintain the kind of society that was being proposed. It was something that Benjamin Franklin was always worried about and he took his cues from Cicero, a non-Christian:

From W. Cleon Skousen's "The 5000 Year Leap":

... To Cicero, the building of a society on principles of Natural Law was nothing more nor less than recognizing and identifying the rules of "right conduct" with the laws of the Supreme Creator of the universe. History demonstrates that even in those nations sometimes described as "pagan" there were sharp, supreme Designer with an ongoing interest in both human and cosmic affairs.

Cicero's compelling honesty led him to conclude that once the reality of the Creator is clearly identified in the mind, the only intelligent approach to government, justice, and human relations is in terms of the laws which the Supreme Creator has already established. The Creator's order of things is called Natural Law....

...It was clear to Cicero as he came toward the close of his life that men must eliminate the depravity that had lodged itself in society. He felt they must return to the high road of Natural Law. They must pledge obedience to the mandates of a loving and concerned Creator. What promise of unprecedented grandeur awaited that future society which would undertake it!

He wrote: "As one and the same Nature holds together and supports the universe, all of whose parts are in harmony with one another, so men are united in Nature; but by reason of their depravity they quarrel, not realizing that they are of one blood and subject to one and the same protecting power. If this fact were understood, surely man would live the life of the gods!"

The American Founders believed this. They embraced the obvious necessity of building a highly moral and virtuous society. The Founders wanted to lift mankind from the common depravity and chicanery of past civilizations, and to lay the foundation for a new kind of civilization built on freedom for the individual and prosperity for the whole commonwealth. This is why they built their system on Natural Law."

The more time I spend reading "The 5000 Year Leap" the more I understand what we are losing here in the U.S. and why the tribal cultures in other parts of the world are doing so well. It takes a strong hand to control the people.

I'm one of those who believes God gave us free will (or liberty, if you please) to live as we choose, and we, for the most part take the road mostly traveled, living for our own delights and what pleases us.

Someone like Obama (or some Party like the progressive Democrats) saw the hand-writing on the wall and stepped up to take care of the children that we have become. We are, in effect, getting what we need.