I so wish I could disagree with you. 
For that matter, I wish I could actually define what a Republican is, other than a group of white folks who really, really, want to take away (health care, food etc.) from the poor and give to the rich.
 If Lincoln had simply shrugged and said "don't let the door hit you on the way out" when the South said they wanted to leave, today we would have a much different country.  But maybe, that is the Connecticut Yankee in me writing. Seems to me the only real hope for America is time, time for young people to shake off their elders' stupidity and move to the "bright future shared with the rest of humanity" you mention.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon