Mac1958
Diamond Member
Yes, agreed. We're a helluva long way from that, but I'd love to see it, too.I would prefer three strong parties. I think we need our congress to be made up of at least three parties so that members can wheel and deal with each other on individual bills and no one party line can dictate the direction our country is taken.I agree with everything up until the last sentence.Trump has drawn out and given recognition to the crazies. The GOP is now split between the Old School Elitists and the Radical Alt-Right, and the latter isn't going anywhere soon. That, overall, weakens the GOP's political power in all but local elections up to and including House seats. It has forfeited any chance of hanging onto the senate and the White House.It's a great question, and I'm guessing that it may depend on the outcome of the election.
If he loses big, then the Alt Right's grip becomes more tenuous, maybe.
When you hitch your wagon to a circus horse, you really can't be sure of where you're going.
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And this is a self-inflicted wound. By embracing the Tea Party movement in order to pad its numbers, the GOP threw what was left of its principles out the window and now they're paying for it, mortally. Once they introduced that virus into their party, they could only get sicker.
Mother Nature has a way of picking off outliers like the Republican Party of the United States.
This country needs two serious, strong parties. The GOP could be that today, if it were not for what talk radio and conservative internet have done to it.
I'm just hopeful that whatever rises from the ashes here will provide serious ideological balance.
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