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More Americans Now Identify as Republicans Than They Do As Democrats
Big League Politics ^ | February 16, 2020 | Richard Moreland

Posted on 02/17/2020 4:29:43 AM PST by CheshireTheCat

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To: LS

Meant to ping you.


41 posted on 02/17/2020 9:23:50 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Jakarta ex-pat
Both “parties”, and pretty much any established “party” in the world need to go the way of the dinosaur.
The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory, first developed by the German syndicalist sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book, Political Parties.

The “iron law of oligarchy” states that all forms of organization, regardless of how democratic or autocratic they may be at the start, will eventually and inevitably develop oligarchic tendencies, thus making true democracy practically and theoretically impossible, especially in large groups and complex organizations. The relative structural fluidity in a small-scale democracy succumbs to “social viscosity” in a large-scale organization. According to the “iron law,” democracy and large-scale organization are incompatible.

What is ‘Iron Law of Oligarchy’?

Democracy is impossible; there is no principled way of deciding the winner of an election with more than two candidates. Somebody has to winnow the field down to two for us; we can’t possibly do it ourselves. Even if that “somebody” turned out, to my surprised ultimate delight, turned out in 2016 to be the celebrity billionaire Donald Trump.
42 posted on 02/17/2020 9:27:48 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: Redwood71
Historically, the liberals have always gone after the large populated areas like California and New York, left and upper right coast, and the union areas like the upper Great Lakes states big cities.
Fortunately, that naturally gerrymanders the vote for the House against the Democrats, since any reasonably compact district in a city will be won overwhelmingly by a Democrat, but in consequence Republicans are more competitive in more congressional districts in any given state than their gross numbers would suggest.

43 posted on 02/17/2020 9:35:41 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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“Republicans are more competitive in more congressional districts in any given state than their gross numbers would suggest.”

There are a few that are going to be liberal even if they are not running one that year. But the growth in the Trump movement in other states besides small amounts of electoral votes in the lib power areas, has just caught up with them. And Trump took 30 states to the libs 20 that included their power stations. They expected the population of the large areas like the cities and rural pops like New England, which are back to back cities, to overshadow the Wyomings and Montanas. Oh, what evil lurks in the minds of men?

rwood


44 posted on 02/17/2020 10:36:16 AM PST by Redwood71
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To: Black Agnes

Yes, saw this a few days ago.


45 posted on 02/17/2020 12:13:50 PM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

The New Deal certainly was an unprecedented level of government control of the economy, but Mussolini had no use for individual freedoms.


46 posted on 02/17/2020 12:23:16 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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