How did it ever come to this?
Party’s are not indestructible. Since the two party’s seem bent on fusion, there is coming a time when a new political party will have to rise.
Hegel Dialectic in action. 1st you have a thesis, in reaction to which forms an antithesis which over time combines to become the synthesis which then becomes the thesis developing a new antithesis.
In these terms the thesis was the Democrat party, which developed over time the anti-thesis Republican party. With McCain in the lead, the the purging of true Conservative candidates like this, we seem to see the Republican Establishment accelerating a fusion with the Democrat Party leadership. They are becoming a synthesis.
SO it appears the Republican-Democrats will form a globalist, interventionist European Socialist style party. That will be the new thesis.
In reaction to that something new will arise. An new Anti-thesis. It may be that Ron Paul is an out rider of that new trend. Perhaps indicating the coming rise of an Isolationist, limited Govt., Nationalist party of Libertarian-Conservatives to oppose the Corporatist Democrat-Republican party
A lot rides on this election for setting the course of politics for the coming generation. If it ends up being Hillary-vrs McCain it will be a matter only of the party’s arguing over the speed to which the US should develop a European style authoritarian bureaucratic socialist style Govt.
Savage was discussing the idea of a nationalist party earlier... however I think we need to work within the GOP, retake it from within... Third party, short of superceding one of the existing parties, has ZERO chance of winning, and may do more harm when a good Republican comes along...