(January 18, 2013 at 12:45 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: That brings me to the third thing that I see said on here that drives me crazy. That's when people wish for the death of the Republican party. I don't mean that they just lose this or that election, but that the part literally have no power. Do you guys not think beyond one step? Are you honestly advocating single party rule? Do you guys have any clue how well that has worked out in the world.
Do you honestly think that the collapse of the Republican Party would lead to single-party rule? I mean, because that pretty much never happens, anywhere, unless steps are take by the dominant party to forcibly prevent the formation of new parties (and I never see any leftists advocating this). In the absence of that, new parties will always form from the corpses of old. The Republican Party formed from the corpse of the Whigs in the 1850s. There's a chance we might even see a drift away from the bipartisan existence we've had to accept forever.
No party is entitled to have an equal say in things. If their politics no longer represent the views of the mainstream, and it's clear that they do not, but they still hold enough power and the willingness to deadlock and regress the political process just because it's all they are capable of, then yes, I advocate the active marginalization of that party.
