Thing is, our two-party system isn’t something that you engineer from the ground up; it’s an emergent property of the winner-take-all and first-past-the-post voting systems that have characterized elections in this country since, well, pretty much forever. The Republican Party needs to cease existing, for the good of the nation (dibs on their financial assets ;)), yes; but once it does, the Democratic Party will schism, and we’ll have two parties once again.
No they don’t want society to be lawless, they just don’t want those laws to apply to them. Big difference. Harsh laws for thee, but none for me. It’s about the privileged doing everything in their power to maintain that privilege, even if it means we don’t have a democracy anymore. They will be in power and unaccountable. All of us will be under their thumb though. So no they don’t want anarchy, they want dictatorship.
That’s funny-I could have sworn seeing you use the term “mainstream media” more than once, defend a Trump speech, and you didn’t seem to be iffy about your support of Trump in this thread.
Are you using a definition of “swing voter” the rest of us are unfamiliar with?
He may not be conscious of it, but I think it’s a way for some to be able to support the GOP but then not have to feel guilty about it. If they can blame the left for forcing their hand then they get to avoid responsibility for their actions and choices.
I didn’t fall for it. I wasn’t aware of its existence until after the 2016 election. And I don’t believe its members are Russian agents. In fact, I chuckle whenever someone accuses someone of being a Russian agent. Whoever is writing the mainstream talking points is part of an older generation that remembers the cold war.
True, but if at the same time we outlaw gerrymandering, implement some regulations around campaign financing and stronger enforcement on all the things we’ve just been shown to be weak in our “balance of powers”, maybe the next two parties won’t be as bad. For a while.
There are no members, at least not in any appreciable sense. Democratic identification, and voting, has only gone up since 2016. The Democrats are doing better now (as most clearly indicated by their massive success in the 2018 elections) than they were in 2016.
I would have been third party / democrat before 2016. And if the Dems hadn’t gone crazy about impeachment, I would have only voted Republican where I thought Trump needed a little extra help. Now I see they want to impeach him at all costs, and can’t afford to vote Dem for anything in 2020. Actually can’t afford not to vote Republican.
You just posted about a fake movement started by Russia and spread through right wing twitter and facebook. Yes, you fell for it. It is not a real thing.
It *seems *like you think Republicans are pretty much okay with the idea that the US turn into an oligarchy or a theocracy, perhaps not on the same level, but somewhere kind of near it, as some of the worst regimes in the world right now, and they’re okay with it as long as they stay in power. Am I wrong?
You are not wrong. If they could enforce a permanent Republican government they would do it in a heartbeat and never think twice about it. They have been trying to do this for a long time actually.
If the “Walk Away” movement was real and significant, we’d actually see some evidence in elections and polls. In 2018, the Democrats won by a very significant margin. And current polling shows the party as strong or stronger, nation wide. There’s no evidence the Democratic party is shrinking.