House Republicans were shocked by some of the recent high-profile retirements announced by their colleagues, which have included powerful committee chairs and rising stars inside the GOP.
The problem here is that they’re going to be replaced by maga-extremists and not “normal” assholes. So every thing is just gonna get worse and more disfunctional
Depends entirely on how successful we are in the upcoming election cycles, and at governing the country when our people are in office. It’s not a one player game, unless we give up.
Though we should expect attempts at sabotage. Resilience is the name of the game though. Fascist ideology tries to paint us as weak, and we really can’t afford to go along with that at any point.
Not in the long run. In politics, battles, where you win some and lose some, take years. Wars take decades to generations. Can’t look at just one human lifetime and say “that’s just how things are” when “how things are” is always up to people, who are inevitably subject to change in both themselves and their environments.
No matter how much that basic principle may fundamentally bother conservatives.
Once trump kicks the bucket there will be a powerstruggle about which rich douchebag gets to run the show. If political parties abroad are any indication is that the shit show this will turn into will be of epic proportions.
In the Netherlands we have seen 2 flavors of strongman parties. Those that are setup by authoritarian model (eg. 1 person with absolute power and no democracy in the party) or a party that regularly fractures of groups of “dissidents” who then either survive while the old one withers away or they fade away themselves. Currently our biggest party is one by authoritarian model… it’s interesting to see.
Once trump kicks the bucket there will be a powerstruggle about which rich douchebag gets to run the show. If political parties abroad are any indication is that the shit show this will turn into will be of epic proportions.
It’s difficult for me to imagine things becoming an even more epic shitshow. But I’m secretly an optimist. albeit a very grumpy one.
Precisely… the two party system is like an airplane, it requires two wings to fly. If one wing catches fire, we’re all going down.
As much as I am not a Republican, I really do wish for a sane, healthy, competent Republican Party.
Alternatively, the whole system may blow up and that could mean a lot of chaos, blood, and who knows what else. There is a chance we could reform a better one in the future, but that is definitely not certain. We could also end up with something far worse.
I’ve been expecting the Mitt Romney GOP and the MAGoos to split since 2015. Expect the old style GOPs to do a hostile takeover of the Libertarian Party [less than 1 million registered members according to the last Wiki I read]
The problem here is that they’re going to be replaced by maga-extremists and not “normal” assholes. So every thing is just gonna get worse and more disfunctional
Depends entirely on how successful we are in the upcoming election cycles, and at governing the country when our people are in office. It’s not a one player game, unless we give up.
Though we should expect attempts at sabotage. Resilience is the name of the game though. Fascist ideology tries to paint us as weak, and we really can’t afford to go along with that at any point.
Should have clarified, the republicans who will replace them will all be far right extremists.
They may or may not get elected. But, what little sanity the party retained will sail off into retirement.
Think about local or state elections. It pretty much is a one player game in many areas.
Not in the long run. In politics, battles, where you win some and lose some, take years. Wars take decades to generations. Can’t look at just one human lifetime and say “that’s just how things are” when “how things are” is always up to people, who are inevitably subject to change in both themselves and their environments.
No matter how much that basic principle may fundamentally bother conservatives.
Once trump kicks the bucket there will be a powerstruggle about which rich douchebag gets to run the show. If political parties abroad are any indication is that the shit show this will turn into will be of epic proportions.
In the Netherlands we have seen 2 flavors of strongman parties. Those that are setup by authoritarian model (eg. 1 person with absolute power and no democracy in the party) or a party that regularly fractures of groups of “dissidents” who then either survive while the old one withers away or they fade away themselves. Currently our biggest party is one by authoritarian model… it’s interesting to see.
It’s difficult for me to imagine things becoming an even more epic shitshow. But I’m secretly an optimist. albeit a very grumpy one.
Precisely… the two party system is like an airplane, it requires two wings to fly. If one wing catches fire, we’re all going down.
As much as I am not a Republican, I really do wish for a sane, healthy, competent Republican Party.
Alternatively, the whole system may blow up and that could mean a lot of chaos, blood, and who knows what else. There is a chance we could reform a better one in the future, but that is definitely not certain. We could also end up with something far worse.
I’ve been expecting the Mitt Romney GOP and the MAGoos to split since 2015. Expect the old style GOPs to do a hostile takeover of the Libertarian Party [less than 1 million registered members according to the last Wiki I read]