"With more time to reflect, I found myself facing the hard question "Just where is God, anyhow?" in the current political travesty afflicting the poor and those fighting for the common good." 

Christine, you are neither the first nor the last person to ask that question.  Just think of all the Christians who endured the 31 year period from the start of World War One to the end of World War Two.  First there was the pathetic slaughter of millions of young men in the WWI.  It was followed by the great flu epidemic of 1918 that killed even more than the war. The Russian Civil War killed millions more.  Between the world wars a series of dictators arose throughout Europe.  Stalin killed millions.  Another million were killed in the Spanish Civil War.  People watched helplessly as Adolf Hitler consolidated power in Germany. Then came World War 2 and the Holocaust.  That was another 50 million dead.

People then had good reason to ask, "Where is God?"  God is right here suffering with us.