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But I don’t want to talk past what I think is your point. It seems to me that the point you are trying to make is this: Support for a political party can meaningfully effect the culture at large. Specifically, this happens by spreading the philosophy of the party.
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The point I was trying to make was the opposite: at this juncture, supporting a political party is a pointless exercise. Right now the only meaningful place to change our culture is in the realm of philosophy and ideas. This will, for instance, require writing that is at present decidedly un popular and “out there” (compared to where the culture is now) in hopes that the truth will ultimately catch on. This is a thousand miles away from partisan politics however.
The only meaningful way we can hope to decrease deficits in the next year or to is to repeal the PPACA.
Huh? Want to take a look at the current US Federal budget breakdown and try that again? Over half of our Federal budget is SS and Medicare (see my interesting posting on the federal budget 
). Getting rid of the deficit will require a massive sea-change in thinking in the USA, which neither party is even remotely near.