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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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One of the other Major parties to start dying. That's really been the only time; the Federalists started dying and were replaced with the National Republicans. The National Republicans reformed into the Whigs. The Whigs died and the Republicans and Know-Nothings vied for power until the Slavery Issue killed off the Know-Nothings. If the Democrats and Republicans hadn't adopted certain ideas from Progressivism, we might have still had the Greenbacks and/or the Bull Moose Party.
If we're lucky, we could see a new Party take over as the Republicans slowly lose their last voter bastion; the White Baby Boomer Neoconservatives. If the Republican Party does die off, I'm expecting the Libertarians to be the ones who take over.
That too, but that will never happen.
edited 8th Jun '17 8:59:31 PM by DingoWalley1
Considering how crazy the Republicans are starting to become, I'm not sure if the Sane Libertarians in that party are going to stick around much longer, or the sane Neoconservatives for that matter. I know for a fact I'm never voting Republican again, so you can count at least one Libertarian who isn't (whether you think I'm sane or not is an entirely different matter).
I was wondering recently in the hypothetical scenario of the Republican Party imploding what would fill the void: a new left-wing party enabling the Democrats to be the party of sane conservatives, or a sane right-wing party that would allow the Democrats to move further to the left.
edited 8th Jun '17 9:21:00 PM by LSBK
In America, liberalism is sort of in a few catagories. The classically liberal Libertarians, and the progressive social liberalism, and the neoliberals. From most conservative (on economic issues) to least, it's something like, the Libertarian, the Neoliberal, and the Progressives.
edited 8th Jun '17 9:57:10 PM by megaeliz
American liberalism anyway. The word "liberal" can mean a lot of different things.
There's a reason "liberal" seems to be math792d's Berserk Button.
Disgusted, but not surprised
One of my BerserkButtons (or pet peeves, anyway) is what ![]()
said. It doesn't seem particularly accurate from what I've observed.
edited 8th Jun '17 9:30:19 PM by LSBK
A Social Democrat party that enables the Dems to drift a bit further to the center and a more sane-conservative center-right GOP offshoot would be perfect I think...though you'd need to enact some kind of electoral reform to stop Presidential races to be less of a colossal fustercluck like they would be under the currrent system-every Presidential race would be decided by Congress!
My other home country of Canada has an FPTP system and three major parties.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison

I wonder what it would take for any third party to gain any traction in the House or Senate.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison