The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.