(November 13, 2014 at 2:43 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:(November 13, 2014 at 12:19 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Parties become more and more polarized until one of them breaks, then we start over.
The two problems are:
1. While the Republicans have moved crazy right, the Democrats haven't run to the left. Quite to the contrary, the Democrats have chased the GOP to the right. So now we have a far right and a center right party.
2. The media refuses to report on the problem except to vapidly play the "both sides" narrative. Only those outside of America see the situation for what it is. Compared to the rest of the developed world, our idea of "liberal" is the rest of the world's idea of "moderate conservative".
Quote: I think this time the social conservatives will spin off into a third party in disgust as their power wanes, leaving a more libertarian-leaning Republican party that essentially agrees with the Democrats on most civil rights issues and they'll mostly squabble over budgets. I think it will be an improvement.
I'd love to see a liberal party. That would not only be an improvement but a transfiguration of American politics.
Aside from the presidency....republicans control this country despite being the smaller party. Republicans control both houses of congress. Most state houses, and most of the governorships. The reason this is the case is because the democrats embraced corporatism and moved left.
