The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.