(09-15-2016, 10:42 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: The GOP will split. One faction will become something akin to European Christian Democrats. The other faction will become something akin to European White Nationalist / Neo Fascist / Neo Nazi parties.This view has a monochromatic aspect. Do you really see the dwindling white identity group choosing to split and weaken their power?
I do not have a good idea of how parties could realign. But this is a good topic that we should explore. But we have to deal with the reality of race as well as the two dimensional political grid.
The grid has the two axes for social and economic ideology, and you could add a third axis with race/ethnicity. But that would create eight "quadrants" many of which would be unfilled. So I don't like that visual. How would one characterize the American electorate taking into consideration that something like 70%+ of center-right white men vote Republican while the same fraction of center-right black men vote Democratic? Both have the same location on the two-dimensional political axis, yet they vote very differently.
It is my belief that this "third axis" is why American politics has been different from European politics, that is, why American exceptionalism, as the Marxists first put it, exists.