Posted on 10/01/2018 12:01:32 PM PDT by kathsua
If one party changes, the other one will necessarily change over time to pick up disaffected voters from the old coalition. The Republicans are losing some coastal millionaires over trade, immigration and social issues. The Dems will make a play for them and their money. The Republicans will more than make up for it by picking up working class old school dems and more than a handful of common-sense racial minorities who don’t want to the play second fiddle to perverts and illegal aliens.
“New parties could bring new ideas to Washington and the rest of country like fresh water entering a swamp. “
Elections of a “new” party would only address 1/20th of the problem because congress has far less power than the administrative state. How do we get rid of the folks running the administrative swamp with civil service protection? And the NGO and corporate interests who feed off the taxpayers and then return some of that money to the politicians who keep giving more and more power to the administrative swamp. And judges who refuse to require Congress to make the law.
The Whig Party came about to counter DEMOCRAT Andrew Jackson, who really was a tyrant.
We had the Whig Party for about 58 years, then it morphed into the Republican Party.
Political parties DO change and grow, but the Millennials won’t see it happen in their lifetimes, other than the quick downward trajectory of the Democrats who have been taken over by the tyrannical ghost of Andrew Jackson - again.
I never said/posted the quote you headed your reply to me with.
And I have NEVER, in my entire life ( quite the contrary, as a matter of fact! ), called for nor voted for a TURD Party candidate/TURD Party.
I was quoting from the article, not you.
I would like to see the speaker of the house position forced to rotate among all political parties.
I know that, but most posters do NOT read the articles, so I wanted this out there.
Republicans claim to believe in freedom and limited government. Those ideas are ageless, so if they were to fight for those, they’d never be obsolete.
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