Has the regeneracy arrived?

[Kinser79]

Bob, I hate to be the one to break this to you, but in the 1930s congress was just as divided. FDR himself was called everything under the sun. That is a feature of our particular system, not a bug, so getting around it isn't that much of a problem.

That being said, I would say that a regeneracy is noted by a recognition that the status quo is not working, and cannot be made to work by tinkering around the edges. Obama has pretty much proved that.

On the Republican side you are seeing an alignment behind Trump on the issues of Nationalism, Protectionism and Isolationism. On the Dems you have "Obama's Third Term" and "More of the Same" or at least that is how HRC is running at the moment (it will of course backfire because you don't get this much anger in the electorate if "4 more years" and "More of the Same" could work). Remember Sanders may not have a chance at getting the nomination but he's set the Dems on fire too.

In short as I've said elsewhere what I'm seeing is a realignment of the Parties and they won't fall on the left-right axis for much longer. The economic conditions that gave rise to that in the MillSaec are passing away. Rather we'll see alignment on the libertarian and authoritarian axis.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

It should be noted that I think that particular test is skewed toward authoritarianism unless one is nearly pure ideologically as a libertarian. But as we can see on the political compass it is either an up or down axis for the libertarian-authoritarian dichotomy. It should be noted that one can be libertarian and be on the left or the right, likewise one can be authoritarian and on the left or the right.

My most recent political compass results (which are somewhat skewed toward the center economically on the basis of biases of the test makers) are as follows:

Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -0.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92

As you can see my libertarian score (which is always a negative number on the graph) is as low as you can get and still be relatively centrist in that regard. On a similar test I also scored to the left but in the social libertarian camp.

It is my view that following this election the GOP will become, however, begrudgingly the party of social libertarianism and of nationalism, protectionism and isolationism, and that further this will be the basis of building the new order. Otherwise, we will end up in the terminal stages of empire and an implosion sometime around the next 2T.