I think you underestimate the stupidity of any political party.
Including your own gaggle of raised incompetent, sad sack S.O.B.s
Either an American stands on his OWN personal experience with universal principles or he stands on nothing at all but a media-digested pre-molded opinion he can neither lay claim to as his own, or explain the origins of.
"...once more, after the usual period of years, the torrents of heaven sweep down like a pestilence leaving only the rude and unlettered among you."
~Plato's Timaeus