d: I hope that's how it is. Do you think it might be, or are we doomed to just see things get more and more insane? Or is it like a pendulum?
Nothing lasts forever. I wouldn't say our political life is like a pendulum, though, because that implies an equal shift to the left, and that's never been how politics in this country worked. After the Red Scare era, there was no equal, opposite reaction where right-wingers found themselves being publicly grilled on their political beliefs and facing jail, unemployment, and ruin if they gave the wrong answers and refused to turn in fellow right wingers.
What's scary to me is that the people behind this crazyiness have not been so crazy that they don't realize their views are unpopular, and they've taken steps to ensure that many voters can't actually do anything about it. Their vision of the political process does not seem to include allowing anyone who disagrees with them to take part in it. The implications of that are worrisome.
Making predictions is always risky, but it looks to me like we're seeing the death of the Republican party as we once knew it. Maybe it will break into two. Who knows? I just hope if it happens, it does as little damage as possible to us.
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Date: 11/10/13 15:50 (UTC)Nothing lasts forever. I wouldn't say our political life is like a pendulum, though, because that implies an equal shift to the left, and that's never been how politics in this country worked. After the Red Scare era, there was no equal, opposite reaction where right-wingers found themselves being publicly grilled on their political beliefs and facing jail, unemployment, and ruin if they gave the wrong answers and refused to turn in fellow right wingers.
What's scary to me is that the people behind this crazyiness have not been so crazy that they don't realize their views are unpopular, and they've taken steps to ensure that many voters can't actually do anything about it. Their vision of the political process does not seem to include allowing anyone who disagrees with them to take part in it. The implications of that are worrisome.
Making predictions is always risky, but it looks to me like we're seeing the death of the Republican party as we once knew it. Maybe it will break into two. Who knows? I just hope if it happens, it does as little damage as possible to us.