(Thanks for an interesting column.)

Chad Pecknold wrote:

<<The realism of Augustine is always something I think a lot of people miss,” Pecknold said. “He’s actually very realistic about the earthly city as a place of compromise, about the agreement of goods held in common. He’s even realistic about politics being about things of conscience and the discernment of the eternal law.”>>

The Republican Party no longer practices compromise. Trump and the Republican Party are threatening to refuse to concede the election, are planning to impeach Hillary before she's even elected, refuse to confirm a Supreme Court nomiee under a President Clinton, are actively engaged in Jim Crow efforts to suppress minority voters and tacitly approve violence as a means of resolving political differences. Now let's here the song and dance about "both sides."

Pecknold refuses to vote for either Clinton or Trump? His vote will be meaningless, and he has therefore bailed from the City of Man.