James Fenimore Cooper (yep, that Cooper) once stated that one of the great dangers of a democracy is that it would produce leaders who had no character--men and women who were more interested in getting re-elected than in doing what is right. A "want of national manliness" he called it. Power would be more important to them than morality. Wendell Berry claims that our leaders today are just salesmen promising us a future they can't deliver. Their "solution" to any "problem" begins with the question "will it work"--never with the question "is it morally responsible and right"?
When you pray for our leaders--and God commands that you do so--pray that God will humble them, give them a backbone, (those two things are compatible) and that if it's not morally right, it won't work.
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