I think that both parties have de-evolved into an extremist civil war between "these people" and "those people". It's very hard to have a constitutional balance of power when half of the country believes they are the nation's rulers who have a God given right to dictate what morality is and the other half believes they are the nation's in-laws who believe they have a right to snoop into everyone's personal life and tell you everything you're doing wrong. That leaves those of us in the middle class wondering how our country became so tyrannical and discriminatory.