It's more than Republicans versus Democrats out there. We're in a battle for the good of this nation -- against the evil that wants to totally undo this nation. It's more a spiritual war than a political battle that's dividing Americans on so harsh of lines, and once we realize that without God, the war cannot be won, then we can fight more effectively. American Exceptionalism comes from the idea that individual rights come from God and that government is only there to preserve and protect those individual rights. So if Americans move away from God, it's only natural that government steps in to that void, to become a sort of quasi-god of society. This is where America's at right now. This is why so much evil and burdensome government exists today: because Americans have pushed God to the side. Michael Phillips, says in his "Endangered Virtues and the Coming Ideological War," that even more troubled times are on the way, unless Americans turn back to God, turn back to godly principles, and turn back to what made the nation great and exceptional in the first place.