In a way, you have simply stated the obvious here. The proclivity toward searching for political solutions to what is clearly a spiritual problem is what is causing most of the frustration.
The issues are not really liberal vs. conservative. The issue is that we live in a country that was founded on Biblical law, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and for that reason, and no other, became the greatest nation ever to inhabit the Earth.
The attack on our Christian underpinnings began in earnest about 1830, and over the following ten years, the seeds of our destruction were sown. The most pernicious of these seeds was the creation of government school systems.
We are now witnessing an attack on all that is true, and nurturing of all that is false. 'Religion' in schools is ok except if it is Christian. Religious displays in public places are ok, unless they are Christian. The chant in the election was "anybody but Bush!" but what was really meant was anybody but Christ.
The only thing that stands a chance is if we, as a nation, turn back to Christ; nothing else will avail. He has given us a second chance; perhaps our last chance. We have to follow through on our prayers of recent months.
Amen...and very, very well and succinctly put.
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798