"The Butterfly Effect"
This theory is spoken about in quantum mechanics, its basic meaning is that what you do now can ripple down throughout time. This is true, especially when it comes to radically different ideological values at the national level, battling for power.

One side that went skewing radically so far to one side, and the other is just trying to keep the country's values in place. What is America's values? The right to free trade, the right to free speech, the freedom of expression, the right to bear arms, the right to worship in their own way. To have representation in government, to have a fair trial when accused of a crime, and have legal representation in that trial. To have liberty...liberty has different meanings to everyone, that's why they didn't outline it in the Constitution. They even said that anything not outlined as a freedom, is covered by the states.

Now, what you decide today, can affect the future 1K years in the future. Say a democrat got back into office. 1K in the future, the Constitution becomes a relic, and we become the next USSR. This is why voting is so important.

Or what if, in 1776, the founding fathers lost? What if instead of Christopher Columbus "finding" America, someone from Russia or China claimed America or Hawaii? What then? Remember, the butterfly effect.