Our children are the citizens of the future who must be taught not to lie and cheat but to be honest people like the sturdy and decent forefathers who forged our great country. Dishonest living is a blow at the United States itself, for a free land can survive only through men and women of integrity. Tell them that the Child of Bethlehem came to make people good.
Excerpt from Norman Vincent Peale's Have a Great Day.
I said it years ago, when I saw so many starting to not care about how their 'team' won, as long as they win. That's when I said in 2005 "politics is the new religion".
Once you toss aside, rules, values, laws... the decline begins and it does not easily reset.