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2020-02-03 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-03 02:02|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#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|| 2020-02-03 06:54|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-02-03 08:14|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-02-03 11:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-02-03 16:24|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-02-03 16:50|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-02-03 17:11|| Front Page Top

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