Well, they haven't Assanged her. Yet.

I think the fundamental issues go much deeper than current poltics.

Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

Conflating the ideal, which is aspirational, with the absolute, which is elemental, might be a useful political tactic, but the philosophers should have jumped on that a couple thousand years ago. When people somehow believe their ideals to be absolute, it does empower the more fanatical.

The Ancients were not ignorant of monotheism, but equated it with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, as that was the interpretation of multiculturalism. The Romans adopted Christianity as a branding exercise, as the Empire solidified and remnants of the Republic were being discarded. Though it retained vestiges of pantheism in the Trinity. Which carried over from the Greek year gods, analogous to the cycling of the seasons and regeneration. The son reborn, of the sky god and earth mother. Though the mother was denatured and the metaphor of regeneration was well obscured, given the Catholic church saw itself as the eternal institution. At least until Martin Luther tried to do what Jesus tried with Judaism, push the reset button.

When the West went back to less centralized civil systems, it required the separation of church and state, culture and civics.

The fact is that people are largely clueless about the processes at work and even those currently in control have little idea of how these assumptions and belief systems came to be.