The trick is to make sure that the most demented GOP wins the primary. Someone beyond MGT or Lola Booboo. They'll force the locals to stay home or vote Blue. Even if they win, none of them will be able to work with anyone else, because they'll all want to be top dog.
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The problem here is that they’re going to be replaced by maga-extremists and not “normal” assholes. So every thing is just gonna get worse and more disfunctional
Precisely… the two party system is like an airplane, it requires two wings to fly. If one wing catches fire, we’re all going down.
As much as I am not a Republican, I really do wish for a sane, healthy, competent Republican Party.
Alternatively, the whole system may blow up and that could mean a lot of chaos, blood, and who knows what else. There is a chance we could reform a better one in the future, but that is definitely not certain. We could also end up with something far worse.
I've been expecting the Mitt Romney GOP and the MAGoos to split since 2015. Expect the old style GOPs to do a hostile takeover of the Libertarian Party [less than 1 million registered members according to the last Wiki I read]
Once trump kicks the bucket there will be a powerstruggle about which rich douchebag gets to run the show. If political parties abroad are any indication is that the shit show this will turn into will be of epic proportions.
In the Netherlands we have seen 2 flavors of strongman parties. Those that are setup by authoritarian model (eg. 1 person with absolute power and no democracy in the party) or a party that regularly fractures of groups of "dissidents" who then either survive while the old one withers away or they fade away themselves. Currently our biggest party is one by authoritarian model.. it's interesting to see.
Once trump kicks the bucket there will be a powerstruggle about which rich douchebag gets to run the show. If political parties abroad are any indication is that the shit show this will turn into will be of epic proportions.
It's difficult for me to imagine things becoming an even more epic shitshow. But I'm secretly an optimist. albeit a very grumpy one.
Depends entirely on how successful we are in the upcoming election cycles, and at governing the country when our people are in office. It's not a one player game, unless we give up.
Though we should expect attempts at sabotage. Resilience is the name of the game though. Fascist ideology tries to paint us as weak, and we really can't afford to go along with that at any point.
Think about local or state elections. It pretty much is a one player game in many areas.
Not in the long run. In politics, battles, where you win some and lose some, take years. Wars take decades to generations. Can't look at just one human lifetime and say "that's just how things are" when "how things are" is always up to people, who are inevitably subject to change in both themselves and their environments.
No matter how much that basic principle may fundamentally bother conservatives.
Should have clarified, the republicans who will replace them will all be far right extremists.
They may or may not get elected. But, what little sanity the party retained will sail off into retirement.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
House Republicans were shocked by some of the recent high-profile retirements announced by their colleagues, which have included powerful committee chairs and rising stars inside the GOP.
The wave of retirements is rattling some of the Republicans who are choosing to stick around and fueling concern about a potential brain drain as more senior members decide to leave and take their wealth of institutional knowledge with them.
Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, even cited the gridlock in his recent retirement announcement, saying: “Our country – and our Congress – is broken beyond most means of repair.”
Underneath the chaos, there is also growing anxiety about the chances of the House GOP holding on to the majority in November, which was further compounded by Republicans losing a special election in New York – a key battleground – last week.
And you know, some of our majority-maker seats are tougher with (former President Donald) Trump, and then there’s other places where it works,” said Rep. Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota, who is leaving Congress to run for governor.
And some of the Republicans who are retiring are seen as dealmakers who are dedicated to good governance, like Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, which is fueling concern about who might be left in Congress – and who might be taking their place.
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