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[–] MrMongoose 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

There will never be a single party. If the Republicans go belly-up the Democrats will just split in to two factions.

What I'd like to see is the Republican party split in to two separate parties. The social conservatives and the libertarians. I think the libertarian party could actually be respectable and bring something useful to the political discussion of not weighed down by (what I consider to be) the dead weight of the religious right. You'd still have plenty of the family values types getting elected to Congress from the Midwest and southern states - but the presidential elections would regain some of their sanity, at least.

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[–] BoiseNTheHood 2 points 1 point (+3|-2) ago 

Can we please just get rid of the antiquated concept of political parties altogether? If you can't stand on your own merits and need an organization to tell you what your opinion is on the issues, you have no business being an elected official.

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[–] didntsayeeeee 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

The moment you get rid of political parties, all these independent-minded new folks we have elected will start forming alliances. Because how else are you going to pass anything through a house that requires a majority vote? Pretty soon they'll be swapping support on one issue for support on another. You'll have political parties back again by the end of the week.

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[–] MrMongoose 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Correct. Political parties are the natural resting point in which our system will always come to rest. The system didn't get this way by random chance. Politicians evolved by setting what does and doesn't work within the confines of the system and this is what we ended up with. The only solution would be to change the rules - which would be difficult at best.

MAYBE there could be more than two parties. That's the best case scenario, IMO.

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[–] Fougare ago 

well... accounting for the speed of government, more likely by the end of the quarter.

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[–] bulksalty ago 

It wouldn't shock me if the African Americans (who tend to be quite religious and surprisingly socially conservative in many ways) joined with the evangelical/culture warrior vote (all three about 13% of voters) to form a populist, socially conservative party. Replacing most of the Republican vote, but also a healthy portion (20-25%) of the Democratic vote. If they pull Latinos, Catholics that's right in the same neighborhood as either major party, and the three big groups are pretty upset at the major parties at the moment.

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[–] MrMongoose 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The thing you have to remember is that the GOP doesn't believe in government. What's their motivation for making it work? OTOH they can break shit and come back and say 'See? Government doesn't work. We told you so!'

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[–] didntsayeeeee ago 

It took Civil War conditions for that to happen, and much as people like to talk up the crises of the day things aren't nearly that fucked.

Ultimately the Republican Party brand has a lot of sticking power, I don't think it's going anywhere. Still, things could change under the hood.

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[–] 1Sorry_SOB 9 points 24 points (+33|-9) ago  (edited ago)

Beltway talking heads: "cuck, cuck, cuck".

The rise of the neo-conservatives was the beginning of the end. When "conservative" Jews started running the party, policies changed to "let's dilute the white majority so they pose no threat to us" and "Let's use the US military for the benefit of Israel and Goldman Sachs".

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[–] sp00kygh0st 4 points 1 point (+5|-4) ago 

Couldn't agree more

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[–] MarcoVincenzo 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

The Electoral College almost requires a two-party system, but the Whigs were replaced by the Republicans almost wholesale so it could happen again. What I'm wondering is, if it does happen, what are the Democrats going to morph into to oppose it?

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[–] MrMongoose 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It depends on what exactly they are opposing. If it's far-right social conservatism, the Dems will go more libertarian to pick up the middle. If it's the libertarian wing of the Republican party that ends up in control then Dems probably won't move too much from where they are now. Maybe have some slightly more religious candidates in some of the Bible-belt parts of the country.

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[–] erowidtrance 3 points 45 points (+48|-3) ago 

Good. Both parties are a pile of shit and need to go. They both work primarily for vested interests not the voters.

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[–] dontdoxxmebro 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The thing that worries me is whole grieving pile of mess we will have for the first few years after a bicameral system.

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[–] Novius 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

America needs a major anti-authoritarian party, that neither trusts in the efficiency of the DMV or Comcast customer service.

Ideally you would see a green party have minor success in congress maybe a senator. Maybe a Science NASA and the Texan Superconducting Super Collider Party, to make America the envy of the world again.

I would love to see a party for the economic schools in America, Thomas Paine's "Agrarian Justice" Ideals too.

 

I just really don't want the old "Wall St" Left vs "Rural" Right parties ever again.

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[–] g-j-a 9 points 11 points (+20|-9) ago 

Stop injecting fact and sense into my intertubes!

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[–] mnocket 1 point 8 points (+9|-1) ago 

This could be a good thing..... depending on what replaces it. Same could probably be said about the Democratic party as well.

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[–] Novius 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

I hope the young anti-authoritarian Left leave the democratic party to join with Libertarians, I don't think anybody much wants the democratic Party to have a future.

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