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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The only problem is that there are people who will simply not support anyone who does not want an abortion ban (to varying degrees), and Democrats are against that, so I don't think they'll be happy just switching sides.
Of course, the Democrats used to be the pro-slavery party, so maybe they'll just shift policies during the restructuring.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Yeah, that might've happened when the Republican party was a pragmatic entity with actual goals up for opinion and debate, but right now they've kinda been turned into a paranoid crusade with a penchant for willful self-delusion. Mostly because whipping an isolated constituency into ideologues is a good way to keep profiting from the mistaken policies that put its leaders in power in the first place.
I mean best case scenario, the Democrats get another Nixon looking for disenfranchised voters and the crazies hijack you guys all over again, but right now even that isn't likely without a high-profile mass ditching that isn't going to happen. The thing about ditching the Dixiecrats was that it was a mostly moral decision with comparatively few financial hangups — its leaders weren't directly profiting from the policies they were putting in place.
edited 21st Oct '12 7:17:11 PM by Pykrete
We don't need the Democrats to become Conservative and the Greens to take over,...we need the return of Rockefeller Republicans as a counterweight to the Blue Dogs which in turn counterweight the stereotypical Reagan Republicans and Kennedy Democrats.
Mc Cain was probably the last Rockefeller Republican,and that was extinguished with the nomination of Sarah Palin
The problem with bringing back Rockefeller Republicans is by the current republican standardm, theyre RIN Os who dont share true christian conservative american family values.
Hell, our presidential candidate is on video record contradicting himself in quite explicit terms,
and our VP pick has been condemned by his own denomination's conference of bishops for his economic policy and cited a notorious sociopath and militant atheist as his primary inspiration going into politics. The current Republican standard isn't Christian anything, it's straight-up self delusion on the same level as a soccer dad whose little angel couldn't possibly have made a foul.
I want my party back.
edited 21st Oct '12 7:40:58 PM by Pykrete
The country's progress and survival depend on just crowding out the low-information culture warrior voting demographic, and starving the corporate backers that rely on them. They need to be beaten into electoral insignificance. No two ways about it.
I'm not,we need conservatism,it's not entirely useless
We just need the parties to have little sects of both,maybe the GOP is more conservative,...maybe the Dems are more liberal,but they aren't purely one or the other.
Currently only the Dems seem to remember this,the GOP hasn't tried this since the 70's and they've just gotten worse.
Conservatism meaning "slow and steady change while avoiding damaging impulse decisions". The GOP (many of them anyway, anyone who speaks out or even keep quiet gets pounded in the primaries by some fanatic) really isn't conservative; they are flat out reactionary.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
They're all neo-nazis as far as I'm concerned: Pollution, no abortions, no civil rights, no money toward public resource or for ourselves to use, and when they do it isn't enough - why would anyone support this shit?!
edited 21st Oct '12 9:20:12 PM by LostAnarchist
This is where I, the Vampire Mistress, proudly reside: http://liberal.nationstates.net/nation=nova_nacio![]()
Please don't generalize like that when that doesn't apply to everyone.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was thought to be quite different from the mainstream GOP at federal level, despite being a longtime Republican. One source I've read says that he simply chose the Republican because he felt it gives more credence as a governor. There's actually a book written about his "blockbuster democracy" and how he's politically intelligent.
I don't see the Democrats sending the nation towards anything really. It's just trying to stabilize things.
edited 21st Oct '12 9:22:48 PM by Trivialis
Drone strikes. Undeclared wars. Wiretapping and surveillance. All things that have happened under Obama by Obama, who is currently the most prominent Democrat in the country. Sure, they're sending us there far slower than the extremists in the Republican party, but so are the moderates in the Republican party.
Oh! And I nearly forgot about the NDAA!
edited 21st Oct '12 9:25:56 PM by deathpigeon

Depends on various factors. where(did you hear about the guys who got shot in somalia the other day? me niether)/why(hate crim? big news. drug dealer shot? pff) /what else is in the news(one celebrity unfollows another on twitter!
◊ what, what double homicide?) , ect.
edited 21st Oct '12 6:12:23 PM by Joesolo
I'm baaaaaaack