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| 2020-02-03 |
| h/t Instapundit [The Epoch Times] - Writing just before the Iowa Caucus, I am taking a risk in what I am going to say, but the handwriting seems to be on the proverbial wall. The United States will soon have three, not two, major political parties. The days of the two-party system, as we know it, are numbered. You don’t have to be any kind of genius to see this. If, as predicted, Bernie Sanders wins big in Iowa and soon thereafter in New Hampshire and Nevada, we are on the road to having the most left-wing candidate in the history of the Democratic Party and are also well into the almost-certain break-up of that party. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 The Global Grifters are not representative of any broad social tendency, class, region or movement. They're just a collection of maybe 40-50,000 whores who've glommed onto the administrative state and the upper reaches of corporations and Wall Street. If - or when - the Left takes over the Democratic Party, they will turn on the Global Grifters in hopes of replacing them with their own, minor-league version of pilfering a la Omar, MadMaxine, Cummings et al. But the days of Biden-Clinton-Kerry-Zero style global scams are over. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-03 17:11 |
| #5 the Democrats are going to be a regional party before long If they actually get their wish and do away with the Electoral College, then the Dems would only have to control the voting in ~60 counties to win nationally every time. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-02-03 16:50 |
| #4 I think Simon's analysis is ahistorical. The American political system has always resolved itself into two main parties. If a third party has a sufficiently large appeal/impact, it will either be absorbed into one of the two parties or it will replace one of them. |
| Posted by: charger 2020-02-03 16:24 |
| #3 They gave up on the white working class and private-sector labor unions two decades ago. How can you have the Academia / GreenEcoWarriors in the same bed as the crass Labor/Farmer types I ask you? They are guilty of being "unconscious Deplorables™!!!" (/sarc) |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-02-03 11:04 |
| #2 At current trajectory the Democrats are going to be a regional party before long. Adding the #NeverTrumpers to that won't change anything. Dividing their numbers into two parties certainly won't. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2020-02-03 08:14 |
| #1 Should Donald defeat Bernie really badly in the general election, McGovern badly or something similar‐in other words, a rout‐the Bolivarians will have to climb back on their old nag and ride back to Venezuela to lick their wounds, not to be seen hereabouts for a long time. Not likely. Left-wingers and Identitarians are the Dems' base now. They gave up on the white working class and private-sector labor unions two decades ago. The Global Grifter Party is an elitist imposition,, an alien graft, on a left-wing trunk. Without the Left and Identity-Politickers there is no mass Democratic Party. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-03 06:54 |