From a secular point of view I think we are lacking leaders that we can look up to.
I remember the days of President Reagan and President George H.W. Bush, even if people didn’t agree with their decisions, they still respected them as leaders of this country.
Unfortunately nowadays it is hard to find a leader with a clean history (especially with the invention of the Internet).
I heard a speaker say that the worst thing President Clinton did in the whole incident, wasn’t the incident itself, or swearing falsely under oath- it was staying in power. A politician can get a second chance in life- but not a second chance in their position. By him staying in power, the country lost all respect for that position.
The country hasn’t recovered from that yet!