You getting involved in Blue politics? You are not the one to do that. The problem would arise if the Right succeeded in banning, suppressing, or even regulating the Blue side. The most ruthless people on the Right would be perfectly happy to have a permanent split of 70-30 in representation forever between themselves and everyone else, with the Blue side winning every vote that matters. That is how things are done in the People's Republic of China.
The People's Republic of China has the formality of multi-party democracy, but everyone knows who will win. The boss of the Communist party is the real power, as in any single-party Communist state of any time, and he is unelected.
Leadership of the Republican is either ruthless, cynical, or servile enough to want an political order in which the Other Side has no political relevance, and government effectively represents only about 10% of the People. Occasionally someone on the Blue side might get to ask for disaster relief or consult on an issue, and of course anyone on the Blue side is welcome to go along with the Red side out of alleged 'principle' . But under such a scenario America would be only a sham of a democracy.
Someone else more clever than you would regulate the Blue side of American politics 00 someone completely loyal to the Red side, and obviously more sophisticated than you about politics.
The People's Republic of China has the formality of multi-party democracy, but everyone knows who will win. The boss of the Communist party is the real power, as in any single-party Communist state of any time, and he is unelected.
Leadership of the Republican is either ruthless, cynical, or servile enough to want an political order in which the Other Side has no political relevance, and government effectively represents only about 10% of the People. Occasionally someone on the Blue side might get to ask for disaster relief or consult on an issue, and of course anyone on the Blue side is welcome to go along with the Red side out of alleged 'principle' . But under such a scenario America would be only a sham of a democracy.
Someone else more clever than you would regulate the Blue side of American politics 00 someone completely loyal to the Red side, and obviously more sophisticated than you about politics.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.