Both parties (what a sad statement)(GOP and Dems) have gone too far in either direction. We need a return to the moderate.

I actually disagree somewhat. I don't think that the problem is one of extremes. Even if extremes were the norm, one could still find compromise, were one interested first and foremost in governance. But governance isn't the point anymore. The point is consolidating power. Each party is afraid of losing power, so politics has become its own endgame. The starve the people of money and liberty and all the while call it empowerment. "Vote for me, so you have a voice!" Except that your voice is stifled by the fact that what you're voting for isn't representation, but rather a faceless, soulless, godless institution that sees control as its central mission (I'm talking about the political parties, not the government itself). That's why ideologies are so fluid, and hypocrisies so apparent. Whatever needs to be said to get elected is fair game, because ideas take a back seat to decision making powers. The only thing that keeps us free is that there are two parties, so thank god for that. The government and the party can't be the same, because the other guy is there waiting in the wings to corral the disaffected. We can see in communist countries what happens when the part and the government are inseparable (even though officially they are separate entities). I think that the GOP is in for a large decline, but that they will be back within 15 or so years, touting their conservative credentials which may or may not look anything like the ideology of today. And they will be successful, because by then the Dems will be corrupt and bloated, and there will be sufficient numbers of disgusted voters to whom the GOP can tailor their message. We can only hope that the message at that time will be one of economic opportunity, and not of protection of capital by all costs.