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are we nearing a new major party realignment?; the 6th party system?
Topic Started: Aug 3 2017, 02:18 AM (305 Views)
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It appears that ever since the inception of the Reagan revolution, the "Right" has been associated with an uncomfortable marriage between unbridled cowboy libertarianism and social conservative policies. Meanwhile the "Left" has taken on the mantle of Big Government Bureaucracy coupled with neoliberal quasi-capitalism and unfettered "social liberation"- be it in 'choosing' one's gender or doing away altogether with the nation-state as a supposedly outdated model of societal structuring. Conservatives like Nixon and Eisenhower weren't opposed to soaking the rich and protecting the environment, and pre-realignment Democrats showed little umbrage in the way of enforcing immigration quotas and border controls meant to protect domestic workers and defend social and cultural cohesion. In the current year of 2017, these crumbled ruins of old may as well be thought of as Martian impositions from a parallel dimension. What, then, stands in the way of another imminent realignment of the parties?
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roy
Aug 3 2017, 02:18 AM
It appears that ever since the inception of the Reagan revolution, the "Right" has been associated with an uncomfortable marriage between unbridled cowboy libertarianism and social conservative policies. Meanwhile the "Left" has taken on the mantle of Big Government Bureaucracy coupled with neoliberal quasi-capitalism and unfettered "social liberation"- be it in 'choosing' one's gender or doing away altogether with the nation-state as a supposedly outdated model of societal structuring. Conservatives like Nixon and Eisenhower weren't opposed to soaking the rich and protecting the environment, and pre-realignment Democrats showed little umbrage in the way of enforcing immigration quotas and border controls meant to protect domestic workers and defend social and cultural cohesion. In the current year of 2017, these crumbled ruins of old may as well be thought of as Martian impositions from a parallel dimension. What, then, stands in the way of another imminent realignment of the parties?
Interesting topic :cheers:
Trump is pulling the Con's more to the middle
Sanders is pulling to the liberal/left
The Dem's are stuck in no mans land and are losing both ways


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Aug 3 2017, 02:43 AM
roy
Aug 3 2017, 02:18 AM
It appears that ever since the inception of the Reagan revolution, the "Right" has been associated with an uncomfortable marriage between unbridled cowboy libertarianism and social conservative policies. Meanwhile the "Left" has taken on the mantle of Big Government Bureaucracy coupled with neoliberal quasi-capitalism and unfettered "social liberation"- be it in 'choosing' one's gender or doing away altogether with the nation-state as a supposedly outdated model of societal structuring. Conservatives like Nixon and Eisenhower weren't opposed to soaking the rich and protecting the environment, and pre-realignment Democrats showed little umbrage in the way of enforcing immigration quotas and border controls meant to protect domestic workers and defend social and cultural cohesion. In the current year of 2017, these crumbled ruins of old may as well be thought of as Martian impositions from a parallel dimension. What, then, stands in the way of another imminent realignment of the parties?
Interesting topic :cheers:
Trump is pulling the Con's more to the middle
Sanders is pulling to the liberal/left
The Dem's are stuck in no mans land and are losing both ways





If that's what Trump is doing, then it's not such a bad thing that he utterly defeated Hillary. Bernie, likewise, should move to the center or right-of-center on immigration, while remaining populist-progressive on taxing the 1%.


what do you think?
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Aug 3 2017, 02:45 AM
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Aug 3 2017, 02:43 AM
roy
Aug 3 2017, 02:18 AM
It appears that ever since the inception of the Reagan revolution, the "Right" has been associated with an uncomfortable marriage between unbridled cowboy libertarianism and social conservative policies. Meanwhile the "Left" has taken on the mantle of Big Government Bureaucracy coupled with neoliberal quasi-capitalism and unfettered "social liberation"- be it in 'choosing' one's gender or doing away altogether with the nation-state as a supposedly outdated model of societal structuring. Conservatives like Nixon and Eisenhower weren't opposed to soaking the rich and protecting the environment, and pre-realignment Democrats showed little umbrage in the way of enforcing immigration quotas and border controls meant to protect domestic workers and defend social and cultural cohesion. In the current year of 2017, these crumbled ruins of old may as well be thought of as Martian impositions from a parallel dimension. What, then, stands in the way of another imminent realignment of the parties?
Interesting topic :cheers:
Trump is pulling the Con's more to the middle
Sanders is pulling to the liberal/left
The Dem's are stuck in no mans land and are losing both ways





If that's what Trump is doing, then it's not such a bad thing that he utterly defeated Hillary. Bernie, likewise, should move to the center or right-of-center on immigration, while remaining populist-progressive on taxing the 1%.


what do you think?
Bernie is too much a populist-socialist in a nation that has never been big on socialism
I'm no fortune teller so I'll wait and see :popcorn:
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Same.. I'm just happy to be a Proud Independent and a NeverHillary guy myself.


Both the Dems and GOP are toxic, each in their own unique way.


While I'm not a Conservative or a Republican (nor plan to be), you could call me a "recovering leftie" of sorts. The Democrats, particularly Establishment Democrats, have gone totally insane.
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Also, for all the flak they get Rand Paul and Stephen Miller are FAR preferable to the Neocon Warmongers of old.


Similarly, McCain still sucks... Rand Paul should have more clout than him on Foreign Policy, while the Republicans have the Senate.
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I am hoping for a hybrid party to arise with goals to starve the poor, eat the rich, destroy the climate, avoid all foreign entanglements, eliminate immigration, and deregulate everything................. :usa:
Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid
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Here you go, stout. With the wonders of direct deposit, you can live anywhere you like ...

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Aug 3 2017, 05:33 AM
Here you go, stout. With the wonders of direct deposit, you can live anywhere you like ...

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Can I get a job as a pirate ???........... :nana:
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Aug 3 2017, 05:33 AM
Here you go, stout. With the wonders of direct deposit, you can live anywhere you like ...

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Yabbut until the USA drops global taxation on it's citizens they still have their eternal hooks in you....

Nearly every country in the world bases its tax system on residency rather than citizenship. If you’re an Italian citizen, and you leave Italy to live and work in Dubai, you don’t have to pay taxes on the income you earn abroad to the Italian government.

But Eritrea levies a 2% flat tax on its citizens who live abroad. If you’re an Eritrean citizen, you have to pay taxes to the Eritrean government, no matter where you live and work.

The media has condemned this as “extortion” and a “repressive” measure by an “authoritarian” government.

The UN has even weighed in. In Resolution 2023, the UN Security Council condemned Eritrea for “using extortion, threats of violence, fraud and other illicit means to collect taxes outside of Eritrea from its nationals.”

You might be wondering, “What’s the controversy? Eritrea is getting criticized, and rightly so.”

That brings us to the only other country on the planet with a similar tax system… the United States.

The U.S. also taxes its nonresident citizens, no matter where they live or work. This is the exact same thing Eritrea does, except the U.S. does it on a much bigger scale and with absolutely draconian penalties.
Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence.
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We are approaching another iteration of the banned Harbor Seal
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Aug 3 2017, 10:30 AM
We are approaching another iteration of the banned Harbor Seal
Feeling a little paranoid Fashy?


Have you paid your internet taxes?
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Aug 3 2017, 02:43 AM

Trump is pulling the Con's more to the middle


Not that I'm opposed to fascists but they're not centrists.
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