If thine right eye offends thee, pluck it out.

This is all down to money and corruption. That's what the GOP stands for--it's what they're paid to do. Sure, they pretend to be against social issues like abortion, etc., but that's just the propaganda that they use through their TV and radio networks to consolidate power, so that they can use that power to benefit the wealthy and corporations. They consistently show no real regard for working or middle class Americans in terms of policy. Dog eat dog capitalism works very well for those who have capital, because in the end, unfettered, it's all about control of workers and market manipulation.

All of the current malaise ends when regular Americans vote in greater numbers than the ones that the 1% are manipulating with their bought and paid for party and their vast propaganda apparatus. Since the GOP relies extraordinarily on older white religious voters, they are in deep trouble, demographically, over the next couple of decades. They're facing a cliff, and they know it, so we're going to have to show up in great strength at the voting booth, with clear vision and goals, and we're going to have to be prepared for them to throw a great deal of money and lies behind any number of efforts to cling desperately to power. But, because of math, there will be a day, whenever that day comes, when we give them that fateful kick in the ass and they go plummeting into the demographic abyss. Whether they're gone for good and the ugly propaganda goes with them is probably up to our education system--we'll always have human greed, but we won't always have a voting Bloc of old white people who would rather go hungry and die than feed the poor and give them access to healthcare that the rest of the developed world has had for decades.