Andrew I fear you are speaking to idiots who cannot see beyond their own little noses. They are not "big picture" thinkers. They are little sheep following their beloved shepard. They are not independent thinkers.
It would be difficult for this country to have sunk any lower than Bush. And it's proven there are no depths we can't sink to. "Christianity" defined by the likes of the Falwells, and a compulsive liar and incompetant, who falsely manipulates faux-religion, and ignorance, holding the highest office in the land. The US is a "failed state".