And I like the way you put what the Founders understood the imperfections of human nature and society to be. Yes, indeed. We may work as best we can against our baser natures, but that effort is most successful when it’s founded on a moral understanding — usually the result of theological and philosophical reflection, not political power. And this, friends, is the difference between modern-day liberals and conservatives. Ironically, if you ACCEPT the imperfectability of human nature, you can actually act more effectively to better the interests of people, even using political tools to do so. But nowadays, in our therapy-driven, self-esteem-needy world, admitting that people cannot be perfect (and here I’m not talking eternally or spiritually) makes people lose all “hope”. And so we get to the place where that hope they want to have is wholly misplaced.