07-23-2016, 12:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-23-2016, 12:34 PM by Eric the Green.)
(07-23-2016, 10:14 AM)Anthony 58 Wrote:Quote:It's more likely that the two parties will morph into new entities, shedding and adding new members until an equilibrium occurs. I don't have the foggiest what that will be, but it won't mimic the European parties because we aren't operationally parliamentarians. I do know that neither party is really functional, but the first to reform successfully will have the upper hand for a decade at least.
I of course maintain that this process is already well under way, with the Republicans moving away from conservatism and toward national liberalism (or even National Socialism!), and the Democrats abandoning left-liberalism in favor of neoliberalism.
Only if you discount the great importance of the Sanders campaign. Bernie got more votes than The Donald, and he may push the Democrats AND the moderate neo-liberal Democratic president's wife to the Left-- and most-specifically AWAY from neo-liberalism.
Trump is a mixed bag who departs from some Republican neo-liberal shibboliths, but he's also neo-liberal to the max in his embrace of supply-side, trickle-down economics, including trashing the climate, and promises to stifle any reform of the "rigged system" of crony capitalism (which he says he's the only one who can fix because he's a crony capitalist) by appointing more Scalias to the Supreme Court. Citizens United guarantees no reform as long as it's the law.
