# "The Rotten Core of Our Political System" **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 18, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rotten-core-of-our-political-system/964611 "2022-05-18T13:25:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 48
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rotten-core-of-our-political-system/964611/48 "2022-05-19T16:02:45Z")
Requoted from the OP’s book extract: > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > The book’s Democrats are at least sane, but they’re beset by petty quarrels, forever trying to solve the “identity politics’ Rubik’s cube,” and dragged down by a pervasive exhaustion; their elderly leaders are unable to grasp the brutal political forces swirling around them. The Republicans are hell-bent on the destruction of American democracy … Earlier, I posted this as a sort of half-joking comment in another thread. Never mind. That book suggests it would be literally true: > [@Democrats or Republicans get gifted a 535-0 majority in Congress. What happens?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-or-republicans-get-gifted-a-535-0-majority-in-congress-what-happens/964575/13): > > Only half-jokingly: D’s: Would get embroiled in internal bickering between the more militant progressives and more moderate factions; in the end, would get nothing done. Also, Bernie Sanders gets hit in the face with a tomato thrown by Kyrsten Sinema right in the Senate chamber. R’s: Would get a lot done, all of it wrong and stupid, sending America to hell in a handbasket. Would also set standards for “free and fair elections” which, remarkably, guarantee that Republicans keep getting re-ele… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rotten-core-of-our-political-system/964611)._