Whew. Almost as much drama as in the White House.
"Political science taught me political parties are good. . . . . . "
No they are not. We need to get rid of political parties as institutions of governance.
I was in a Canadian political party for six years. It was a dysfunctional time behind the curtain. The parties' dysfunction spills into governance and general society.
In 1997, I started writing a non-partisan replacement system for western democracy. You might be interested:
http://www.tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/tdg.php
The sad part is that if the energy put into the Christian Post had been put into this TDG, the TDG might be half built by now.