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If you add the white house, the US house, the US senate, governorships, and state leglslative bodies, the GOP controls right at 60% of the turf. Until 2018 the number was even higher. GOP had 33 governorships prior to Nov 2018; Dems had 16, so more than a 2-1 ratio. The numbers are now down to 27-23, but with the GOP still ahead.
At least Newsome represents a step up from the recent thread where a psychic predicted the demise of the GOP based on her Tarot readings.
2020 will most certainly even the field. Prepare for a big loss if you are a Republican.
We are headed into a historic change. It's in the astrological charts.
This is the best the GOP has done since 2004ish. The Supreme Court is conservative for the foreseeable future. Great time for the country and to be a conservative
sounds like this clown wants to run for the white house down the road. He will be banked rolled by his Aunt Nancy "bat s**** crazy" Pelosi. Doubt he would win though.
I wish I got paid every time some dire prognostication was made about the imminent demise of both the right and the left over the course of my life. If I did then I could buy my own way into the presidency and do my best to wipe both of them out.
This is my favorite part:
"America in 2019 is California in the 1990s,” he told Politico. “The xenophobia, the nativism, the fear of ‘the other.’ Scapegoating. Talking down or past people. The hysteria. And so, we’re not going to put up with that. We are going to push back.”"
Yeah, it's not like the modern left is infected down to its very core with any of those things. No sirree.
The Democrats do need the Republicans to keep them on the straight and narrow path towards good policies that benefit everyone. Two parties are indispensable for keeping things honest. But what we don't need is a republican-dominated bunch of political mobsters, as we have now in the Federal Government and about 1/3 of all state governments. One thing that the disaster of the Trump era may have accomplished, is to drive such a wedge between the parties, that the "duopoly" of the two may not be working so well anymore, to serve their own interests, at the expense of the people. Politics will be much more polarized to one side or another, for some time into the future.
Liberalism finds a way.
Examples of liberalism defeating its enemies:
China
Russia
Venezuela
North Korea
Cuba
Etc
Most of Newsoms babble are not accepted outside of CA.
Depends on where you go. I'm not saying I agree with everything Gavin Newsom does or says. I'm saying that there are many people outside of California who wouldn't have any problem with Newsom.
In a two party duopoly which limits voices and choices for the people, there is no way that will happen. The political system is designed to work for the moneyed elite who'll bet on both horses and win every time.
/end thread
You win this thread.
Neither party represents 75% of the country. One well to the left of the great majority and one to the right of the great majority.
In a two party duopoly which limits voices and choices for the people, there is no way that will happen. The political system is designed to work for the moneyed elite who'll bet on both horses and win every time.
I agree neither side wants the other side vanquished since it can then lead to a multiple parties rising from the ashes, which the victor does not want.
So they put on this dg and pony show while collaborating with each other to make sure there is no significant third party. Fringe ones are tolerated, the serious ones squashed like bugs.
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