2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Has the seed been planted for a new political Party in this country? [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)History is instructive. Pick up a book and read into 1824. This is the echo we are living though. It was the moment we had, for all effects a single party in the US. It had some good things, some not so much.
So you win. You get to keep your neoliberal, business friendly party. The Rs are in more obvious trouble. But both parties are in trouble. So it is what it is. You will get even more republicans in and the labor and working class folks who would love to get some hearing, sooner or later will conclude this is not their home and will leave. Some incidentally will conclude like many millions, that voting is indeed a waste of time...but will continue to put pressure in other ways. At DU you are seeing the leading edge of that.
For me, staring in 2000, our elections are so clean I feel I am back in Mexico, where you truly cannot tell if your vote will count, so meh, I will only pretend to vote, and for whom, well I will pretend the vote is still well...secret. Or so we like to pretend. The day it is obvious it no longer is, am afraid I will join the millions.