For any organism an inability to grow and change is tantamount to death – an observation the leading radical Conservatives would do well to remember.

As a child I asked my grandfather what the difference between the two political parties was, and the answer he gave (while being skewed for a six-year-old’s perceptions) is still cogent and apropos. “Republicans are all about hanging on to what they value, while Democrats are all about instituting necessary change.”

In this world-model the two parties are not antagonists but complementary components of a working synergy. To maintain that either perspective is uniquely correct by fiat is absurd: one could just as easily drive a car with either brakes or accelerator, but not both together.

Quite aside from the reliance on bigotry, propaganda, overblown rhetoric and patent distortion, the arch-Conservative GOP stance is one which has lost its grasp of one important fact; namely, the world is in a state of unprecedented flux.

As the author noted the survivors will no doubt be the ones who best engender a rational and constructive cooperation.