There are ideas that need to be preserved and cherished and there are challenges that require new ideas. The winning party will be the one to figure that out and have candidates who are attractive, articulate, civil and trustworthy.
Right. Times change. But people don't. We are the same as our forebears 3000 years ago, (read Proverbs lately?) and many of us much worse. The wisdom of the ancients got us to where we are today. Not bad for staying power. The fault has not been in our lack of "new ideas" but in our infidelity to the enduring truths of the human condition and the limits of what a "government" can do.