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You can't just look at one election and think the Republican Party is doing great; they lost the last two presidential elections by a total of 318 electoral votes. The changing demographics in many states—including many red states—ensures that Republicans won't be able to rely on just the South to win elections.
But you can look at only two elections and claim that Democrats are doing great, apparently. Except not really, because Republicans took a majority of seats in the House in 2012.
Look, how many times do we have to go through this? You guys are a bunch of broken records, endlessly repeating your fantasies about how the Republican party is finished. Give it up, it isn't panning out in real life.
With the rapid extinction of the Republican Party, do you think that having a one-party state will be better? If the Democratic Party is the only political party, then maybe we can actually get things done in this country instead of having two parties that fight with each other and refuse to work together.
Another party will replace the Republican Party. Democrats might dominate politics for a while but they will never be the only party.
Another party will replace the Republican Party. Democrats might dominate politics for a while but they will never be the only party.
The process has been under way since the libertarian movement (as opposed to the formal Libertarian Party) got off the ground in the late Sixties. The GOP's biggest dilemma at present revolves around the more strident portion of the Religious Right, which acts as an obstacle to growth in the same manner as the Southern Whigs delayed that party's metamorphosis into the Republicans in the 1850's. The emergence of the LGBT movement guarantees that the Democrats can have nothing to do with the Evangelicals, so the wisest course for the GOP would be to move closer to the Libertarians.
Last year, in a Pennsylvania state legislative contest in a district outlying the economic basket case known as Wilkes-Barre, a long-time libertarian activist named Betsy Summers ran against a local former rock-and-roll musician, Eddie (Day) Pashinski. The latter had long since abandoned the stage for teaching and had acquired a reputation as the PSEA's (teachers' union's) best friend in Harrisburg. Summers lost, due mostly to the continued dominance of aging Democrats still mesmerized by the New Deal, but the percentage was almost exactly the same, despite the absence of a formal Republican challenger. Clearly, the GOP has little to lose by moving away from the last holdovers from the Age of Absolutes.
With the rapid extinction of the Republican Party, do you think that having a one-party state will be better? If the Democratic Party is the only political party, then maybe we can actually get things done in this country instead of having two parties that fight with each other and refuse to work together.
We'll tell you after years of GOP in control of POTUS, Congress, Senate, 2/3rd governorships, 38 states house legislative bodies, ok?
With the rapid extinction of the Republican Party, do you think that having a one-party state will be better? If the Democratic Party is the only political party, then maybe we can actually get things done in this country instead of having two parties that fight with each other and refuse to work together.
Actually we need competing parties but the Dems have been so bad, I think it should be multiple parties that doesn't include the Dems.
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