By your own admission, you have chosen to stand down, and are no longer in the fight. That's your choice, but it also explains your dour outlook on America's future.
Please understand that your gloomy prognostications here affect the minds of others, who might not lay down their arms, but for the disheartening influence of your defeatist statements.
If you've lost all hope, please do us a favor and keep it to yourself. Enthusiasm, as well as defeatism, are contagious.
Wrong. I have chosen to take the fight to a more basic level, one that I have control over by instilling the values I hold dear in the children I raise and by setting an example to the young men and women I lead.
This is where I can make a difference, not by focusing my energies on sending Tweedledumb over Tweedledumber to Washington in the next election. The battle in Washington has for decades been between "liberal" and "more liberal", "socialism" and "more socialism" and honestly, I just don't care about those people.
Will I vote? Sure. But whoever wins the election won't change the way I live my life, the values I instill or the examples I set. I refuse to give politicians that much power.