Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure

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(12-19-2018, 11:21 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(12-19-2018, 10:31 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: All in all, I see the hard-line Red side losing. I shall soon have a post about polling of approval of the President that expresses a cause for the Republicans losing the House majority and several Governorships in 2018 and likely further losses in 2020. Conservatism used to imply moderation, personal responsibility, and national loyalty; it will imply such again -- but probably a few years into the upcoming 1T. Conservatism has become a euphemism for economic polarization, irresponsibility of people who have all the advantages, contempt for intellectual progress, and politics best described as win-at-all-costs, even fascism.

My mother used to argue for mixed government.  Neither party should be allowed to go hog wild, to run amok, implement as country wide a pattern which is disliked by half the country.  That is what I see as driving the see saw.  You can not let the party in power have too much power.  You minimize extreme politics by putting those in power out.

So it depends on how you define winning.  Flipping the see saw at this point is not winning.  You have to succeed so spectacularly that the see saw doesn't stand the risk of flipping back.  You have to win the opposite aspect of the country well enough to stick.

We have had two instances in which one of the two main Parties went into oblivion: Federalists and Whigs. In both cases the Democratic Party got a short-lived monopoly only to split into factions, one becoming a major Party. In the 1930s, following the 1936 election, the Democrats got a 322-103 majority (with two minor parties having 10 House seats), about a 70-30 split in Congressional representation.

It is up to those in power to act with conscience and regard for the rights of the Other Side.

Obviously both Parties contain constituencies incompatible with each other unless the economy is in free-fall or the nation is at war with an enemy as loathsome and menacing as Nazi Germany. Southern agrarian interests and the "Rockefeller Republicans" could never be in the same Party for long, as demonstrated in the overlay of Eisenhower and Obama elections.