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I wonder what the Democrats and the media are hoping for when they wish for the "annihilation" of the Republican Party. Do they expect the US to have only one party, the Democratic Party, from then on? We have had one brief period where there was only one party, when the Federalists faded away, but the Democratic-Republicans soon broke up and there was intense partisanship in the period when it was the Democrats vs. the Whigs. The Confederates did not have a two-party system and it weakened them.

What model do they have in mind? Mexico during the decades when the PRI won all the elections? The Eastern bloc during the Cold War when the Communists were the only party? The one-party South of the first half of the 20th century? Detroit or Chicago on a national scale?

Do they expect the US to have only one party, the Democratic Party, from then on?

I may be a complete pessimist at this point, but I don't believe that we really have had two Parties for quite a while. Perhaps here and there, the Republicans have won Majority in either the House or the Senate, and have won some Presidencies, but nothing except for Reagan really swayed the direction of Washington. And even then, he had the House but not the Senate.

IMO, Reagan was not supposed to happen. Can you imagine how the media would have acted if Obama or Clinton would have won the number of states that Reagan won twice? And even with Reagan winning twice, the media was STILL in constant attack mode.

House Party Divisions:

1901-1911 - Republicans held Majority (10 years)
1911-1917 - Democrats held Majority (6 years)
1917-1933 - Republicans held Majority (16 years)
1933-1995 - Democrats held Majority with Republicans only having Majority from 1947-1949 and 1953-1955 (62 years!!)
1995-2007 - Republicans held Majority (12 years)
2007-2011 - Democrats held Majority (4 years)
2011-2015 - Republicans held Majority (4 years and counting)

Senate Party Divisions:

1901-1913 - Republicans held Majority (12 years)
1913-1919 - Democrats held Majority (6 years)
1919-1933 - Republicans held Majority (14 years)
1933-1981 - Democrats held Majority with Republicans only having Majority from 1947-1949 and 1953-1955 (48 years!!)
1981-1987 - Republicans held Majority (6 years)
1987-1995 - Democrats held Majority (8 years)
1995-2001 - Republicans held Majority (6 years)
2001-2003 - Democrats held Majority (2 years)
2003-2007 - Republicans held Majority (4 years)
2007-2015 - Democrats held Majority (8 years and counting)

For almost 50 YEARS, the Democrats ran both Houses of Congress. That is quite a long time to install all kinds of Pro-Democrat Party institutions.

During most of the 12 recent years that Republicans held the House and held the Senate for all but 2 of those years, they cut some taxes but did NOT do effective reforms and STILL spent like crazy.

And why in the heck do these Independents ALWAYS move in the favor of the Democrats? What kind of Uber-control does the Democrat Party have?