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    1 year ago

    If the Republican party ever becomes irrelevant, Democrats will be stuck waiting to find out what their new opposition party will be.

    My guess is a split between moderate Dems and fleeing “90s Republicans” on one side, and more extremist progressive Dems uniting with extremist Republicans as allies of convenience on the other, fighting to be more isolationist and nationalist.

    Essentially I think the future debates will be over the role of America in society, as economic issues are largely a “solved meta” and most social issues tend to fall by the wayside as time marches on. No political party is seriously trying to contest gay marriage the way they did abortion, for instance.

    Middle vs non-middle seems like the battle of the future.

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      1 year ago

      You don’t have any extremist Dems. You have a right wing party that has two centrists and you have a party full of fascists.

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        This is basically exactly what I’m describing. Great example.