The reason we are having such difficulty with our election system is due to evolution.

It use to be some Democrats voted on the right and some Republican on the left but we have evolved into a bi-partisian system. My Dad and I suspect yours would not recognize the Democrat party of today.
impose their beliefs.

There is little directly that a president can do about the issue of abortion and gay marriage;albeit to appoint those to various courts who share their beliefs. and even then its not clear that such justices would impose their beliefs. Poeple should however consider the ununtentional and salient consequences for spoorting these two issues