Critiquing modern political dynamics, contrasting historical ideals with current practices.

Like many political junkies, I vaguely followed the alleged presidential debate recently.

Having been raised a German Baptist, I had earned a PhD in Hypocrisy before I finished High School. That education served me well, both as an observer and practitioner.It has long been said that if you scratch a cynic, you’ll find an idealist. I am not sure this is accurate. In my own case, I suspect if you scratch this cynic, you’ll find a judgmental backslidden Baptist. Still, my own cynicism seems insufficiently developed to keep up with the Republican Party. And there is a fine line between being sinfully judgmental and simply stating the obvious facts.One needn’t be much of a student of history to notice the cult that has become the Republican Party is simply incapable of governing. That party did not bother to have a platform, plan or set of goals: the party merely agreed to whatever Donald “I alone can…” Trump wants on the spur of that moment. This is not how our republic was designed.No one disputes Donald Trump is rude and crude; what we ge