For example, George Washington himself said, “[V]irtue, or morality, is a necessary spring of popular government.”Utter then provides specificity:Let’s go item by item. We’ve long been in the grip of the Sexual Devolution, where anything goes, virtually, as long as it’s not virtue. Just a tried-and-true eternal one: virtue — aka “that set of objectively good moral habits.”After all, so many today complain about moral decay, or demoralization. Knowledge of health dangers doesn’t stop people from smoking because knowledge isn’t the issue; deep-seated, urge-based attachments are. Likewise, exposure to knowledge of political dangers often doesn’t stop people from voting for bad-habit candidates because, again, knowledge isn’t the issue; sense of virtue is.