(06-03-2019, 03:50 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(06-03-2019, 02:40 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: The Democrat Party is seriously divided and in a lot of trouble.  Do they move even further left and oust some of the long time "establishment" people or does the "establishment" part of the party eliminate the far left wing?

I think both parties will end up split within the next 20 years. Buckle up kiddos, here come the Whigs!

In any other country, both parties would have split in 2016.
But in this country, it takes years of planning and tens of millions of dollars to get on the ballot as a candidate for president in all 50 states.
Our parties, as organizations, are basically permanent.  Change agents (like Trump or Sanders) will try to take one or the other over, rather than start their own.
If a guy has enough pull and charisma to get the whole prize, he will try to take over one of the two big parties, and hoard all of its name recognition, and hoard all of the news cycles focused on the primary races in each of the 50 states, rather than take over one of the little ones. The libertarian party doesn't even hold primaries state by state. they just have one convention, that maybe a thousand people attend ,andt it's all over.

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