Well you have to take care of yourself first. That is far more important than posting on a forum. I just think so many of us are focused on the current abuses that this administration is committing against the US that we don't have the time to discuss philosophy.

"it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands"

Natural Law. Our God-given rights.

When the population failed to recognize that man's laws are beneath Natural Law, they were left without their rights given by Him.

“It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.”

–George Washington, letter to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, 1789

"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions." - James Madison-1792

"Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%."- Thomas Jefferson

"It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it may forget their obligations to their constituents, and prove unfaithful to their important trust."

– James Madison, Federalist No. 62, "The Senate," Independent Journal, February 27, 1788; Rossiter pp. 376-377

The Soul or Spirit of Democracy is VIRTUE.” No State can long preserve its Liberty “where Virtue is not supremely honored.

Samuel Adams to Benjamin Kent, July 27 1776

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”

James Madison, Federalist 51

“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.”

–Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia Query 19, 1781

“Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in their enjoyments, and, consequently triffling in their value. Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves on the ruin of this Country. Let us convince every invader of our freedom, that we will be as free as the constitution our fathers recognized, will justify.”

Samuel Adams, A State of the Rights of the Colonists, 1772

The eyes of the people are upon us. If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more.

Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters. Let us awaken then, and evince a different spirit, - a spirit that shall inspire the people with confidence in themselves and in us, - a spirit that will encourage them to persevere in this glorious struggle, until their rights and liberties shall be established on a rock.

We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.

We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection.

Samuel Adams, Addressing a meeting of delegates to the Continental Congress, assembled at Yorktown, Pennsylvania, September 1777

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"All my letters are filled with details of our extravagance. From these accounts, I look back to the time of the war as a time of happiness and enjoyment, when amidst the privation of many things not essential to happiness, we could not run in debt, because nobody would trust us; when we practised by necessity the maxim of buying nothing but what we had money in our pockets to pay for; a maxim which, of all others, lays the broadest foundation for happiness. I see no remedy to our evils, but an open course of law. Harsh as it may seem, it would relieve the very patients who dread it, by stopping the course of their extravagance, before it renders their affairs entirely desperate."

– Thomas Jefferson, letter to Henry Skipwith, Paris, July 28, 1787; ME 6:188