Kill off the Republican party. Stop pretending that they're reasonable people, stop talking about finding common ground with them. Emphasize the connections between right-wingers and murderers, terrorists, hate-mongers, and liars. Don't let right-wingers to continue to pretend that they're not connected to the fringe of domestic terrorists-- they are. At best they incite them with hate speech. At worst they are them.
Gods yes!!! I'm betting the Republican party doesn't die out, but I'm hoping that a mixture of their utterly failed economic policies, generational shift, and the fact that now that they're officially out of power they getting significantly nuttier than ever will decimate their voting base and transform them into a purely regional party with essentially no national influence. Then, in 15+ years, someone will come almost inevitably in and reform the party. My hope is that this will be accomplished by making them sane and non-horrific. I still won't likely like the result, but I'm hoping that the 2020+ Republican party won't be something that utterly repulses and horrifies me.
Before the recent economic collapse, I would have suspected that a reformed Republican party would be essentially libertarian, which from my PoV is vile and stupid economic & social policies but w/o the added cultural conservatives vileness, but I'm betting that (thankfully from my PoV) libertarianism is now essentially dead as anything other than even more of a fringe movement that it was recently, and so I have absolutely no idea what a reformed Republican party would look like.
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Gods yes!!! I'm betting the Republican party doesn't die out, but I'm hoping that a mixture of their utterly failed economic policies, generational shift, and the fact that now that they're officially out of power they getting significantly nuttier than ever will decimate their voting base and transform them into a purely regional party with essentially no national influence. Then, in 15+ years, someone will come almost inevitably in and reform the party. My hope is that this will be accomplished by making them sane and non-horrific. I still won't likely like the result, but I'm hoping that the 2020+ Republican party won't be something that utterly repulses and horrifies me.
Before the recent economic collapse, I would have suspected that a reformed Republican party would be essentially libertarian, which from my PoV is vile and stupid economic & social policies but w/o the added cultural conservatives vileness, but I'm betting that (thankfully from my PoV) libertarianism is now essentially dead as anything other than even more of a fringe movement that it was recently, and so I have absolutely no idea what a reformed Republican party would look like.