It's possible that you're right. I.e. in the long-term (like *really* long-term, I suspect) things settle, sensible compromises are achieved, and so forth.
However, long-term here probably means 25+ years. It will probably be pretty bad in the meantime. Clearly, for the foreseeable future, there will be nothing sensible and no compromises. It's all culture wars, 24/7. The GOP, in its current form, is incapable of governing, let alone sensible ideas or compromise. The Dems may catch up with them on that.
Is it worth it?
And, that's even granting your rosy future, which strikes me as unlikely. More likely, IMHO, is that the settled state of affairs is a two-state America with extremists calling the shots. Mistresses of rich Republicans travel incognito to blue states as needed. The poor slobs in red states get hauled in for possession of birth control.
It's possible that you're right. I.e. in the long-term (like *really* long-term, I suspect) things settle, sensible compromises are achieved, and so forth.
However, long-term here probably means 25+ years. It will probably be pretty bad in the meantime. Clearly, for the foreseeable future, there will be nothing sensible and no compromises. It's all culture wars, 24/7. The GOP, in its current form, is incapable of governing, let alone sensible ideas or compromise. The Dems may catch up with them on that.
Is it worth it?
And, that's even granting your rosy future, which strikes me as unlikely. More likely, IMHO, is that the settled state of affairs is a two-state America with extremists calling the shots. Mistresses of rich Republicans travel incognito to blue states as needed. The poor slobs in red states get hauled in for possession of birth control.