Opinion Paper: Why is a moral people required for good government?

By Shaun Leahy

Why do governments fall when they started off with an iron will, a strong sense of morals and a tireless philosophy of freedom and rights for the people and turn in to a mad, conniving, thieving society that is thoughtless, corrupt and destructive? What happened to this government? How did these people begin to starve when the country was thriving and became one of the world's largest supplier in grain?

The answer to these questions is an immoral person with a charming smile. Every country that falls has many corrupt men behind it. For the person that represents a country has much influence and will set the tone of the country. A good, smart, uncorrupted government requires moral, sane people in charge. Why because they want to create a solid, stable government that the people truly want.

Another reason is because the moral man is not the one to speak lies that are often told to citizens to control of influence them. An immoral man speaks lies openly with pride and deception. A nation that is going to be a good nation must know the truth, with a government that will not do anything that makes the people grow ignorant and become unaware of what is happening to them. (Such as the Mao's Communist China, or North Korea today) I have noticed that all corrupt governments are soon replaced with other corrupted governments.

I also feel that the people themselves the regular average Joe are very important to this operation to have a good government the people must be involved and that is why I believe that one of the biggest reasons our country is failing is because the citizens of America are becoming less free and less involved in the country to make our nation stornger we must involve the people and they must be recognized for the people make up the country.

My point is that you must have moral people to run the country for they help to determine what is moral in a nation.

I believe that one of the duties of a citizen is to make sure that the person in charge is being ethical if they are not the nation will fall. The people do not want a dictator no one in the world wants to be a slave to their own nation, when that is the case, war will break out and unless the charges against this dictator a new corrupted nation would emerge from this fallen one. My point is that if you have strong, smart, moral people to run and be citizens in this nation that it would stay a strong, moral, and sane. If the people remain that way then so will this country.