While the Republican Party has many shortcomings, it does not consistently toll the bell of destruction as does its opposing party. Admittedly, both parties may be answering to a puppet master, and maybe the same, but Republicans are, at least, holding to some of our traditional values and show some concern for the continuation of our republic. Nominal observation shows that the Democrat party leans sharply left — democratic socialism, fabian (evolutionary) socialism or full-blown socialism.