My dream is that happens. There is a massive voter realignment.
Party 1: Conservatives & rational libertarians form a major party,
Party 2: RINOs and moderate democrats form a major party
Hard core Rat leftists & “All-I-Care-About-Is-Legalizing-Drugs” libertarians form a minor party. Which suffers the fate of all minor parties in our system, becomes a form of political comedic entertainment!
Our system was purposely designed by the Founding Father's to minimize “factions”, basically what they called political parties. The minimal number without being a one party state is two! Our system forces political fighting down to that number. That's why you see third parties come and go but never stay.(OK some do survive but they just hang around on the fringe and screech!) They usually form around one or two (usually related!) issues. Those issues either get adopted into one of the political parties or are resoundingly rejected by the American voter.
Party 1 will argue for minimalist approach to government in our lives.
Party 2 will argue for somewhat more government.
That dialog will hopefully produce good government.
I would not be worried sick for 4 years if Party 2 won a national election like I am now. It would be refreshing.
Yeah yeah none of this is likely, but a fellow can dream can't he?
People have been expecting a realignment to happen with the GOP...but I think it’s much more likely that the Dems will either implode and cease to exist at all, or will divide into two factions.
>>I would not be worried sick for 4 years if Party 2 won a national election like I am now. It would be refreshing.
That is how I used to feel when the Democrats won. I’m not sure when they went over the edge. But I started noticing that we had a serious problem in 2004 when Kerry was running.
I agree with you whole-heartedly. It would be nice to go back to the (naive) days when I felt that both sides were mostly decent people who loved our country but had differences of opinion on minor issues.