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if the US government is not the most moral and freedom defending government in the world, and the American population is not the most upstanding, integrous, and moral population in the world, what exa...
We were that previously, and one upon a time led the world in manufactuMajori our Roosevelt-era default on the value of the dollar, followed by Nixon's closing the gold convertability forced our manufacturing overseas: our exports of goods couldn't compete against exporting the world's reserve currency. At that point, we had our trustworthiness and legal system. But then with the 2008 financial crisis we killed our trustworthiness, and the legal system---already weak through criminal justice reforms of the 1990s---fell when we failed to hold the bank cabal responsible for financial destruction.
But, all of that is downstream of our slow abandonment of biblical protestant Christianity. Philip Schaff warned against this in his mid-19th venture address, The Protestant Principle. Adams said shortly after our Constitution was adopted that it would only work for a people who could govern themselves by the Ten Commandments. And de Tocqueville similarly noted American's commitment to living out the Bible in all spheres of life.
We might still be a leader in protestant missions, but even there, the Majority World is outpacing us,as our churches are sometimes hollowed out and sometimes dying of theological liberalism; meanwhile many of our cities, towns, and villages are becoming mission fields themeselves---particularly as many theologically conservative Christians have ceded laser-eyed focus on Christ for divisive politics of both Right and Left varieties.