Consider the following analogy - you have a herd of elephants and a herd of donkeys, and both are trying to find a watering hole where they can rest and settle. Now, the donkeys are much closer to the watering hole, but they're lost in the woods. The elephants, on the other hand, found a road which leads there - however, they've been charging down it in the wrong direction.
Were the elephants to realize their misdirection, correct their course, and simply do the exact opposite of what they'd been doing, they would reach their destination in no time, quickly leap-frogging the much-closer donkeys. Why? Because the way isn't as clear-cut for the donkeys.
To bring the analogy back home, while democrats have progressed to the general area of virtuousness - of compassion, charitableness, acceptance, honesty, rationality - they're too lost in tangential trailblazing to gain much momentum. Republicans, on the other hand, have headed dead south on a road they need to go north on, and would just have to make the simple switch from pure fiction to pure facts, from pure hatred to pure love, from pure anger to pure patience, pure vengefulness to pure forgiveness, pure evasiveness to pure accountability.
Things are so much less black and white for democrats, and for that reason I think Republicans could astound the world and, with just a simple turnaround, put democrats to shame by becoming skilled at soul-searching, at admitting their faults, and at becoming humble and good - surely something we all strive for.
