text: Well, Sam, when a party that has continually touted its Christian ideals for decades votes for a thrice married, womanizing casino owner who's made a career of cheating people--- it's hard to see exactly how much common moral ground there is that is left to share. These self-described Jesus followers habitually oppose feeding, sheltering, and caring for the poor. They also hate government (the joining together of citizens for the greater good of all), though that is the single entity that separates their country from resembling some third-world hell-hole.
  In spite of this, the US has continued to improve, bit-by-bit over the modern decades, with the more progressive forces winning small battles along the way. With the long-overdo attention now being paid to remedying outrageous gerrymandering, hope for faster change is in the air.