The system I'm applying is one which most closely represents that under which we live in the United States...a binomal political system (debate).
You should try it sometime.
It obiates any discussion if one defines a position which never was and never will be...
if the shoe fits...
"I oppose any state at all, I support a society without any government at all, so claiming I have something in common with totalitarians is patently ridiculous."
The above defines you as, educationally, a child, with no understanding of either history or human nature.
Up against the wall, Mother Hubbard.
America is not a binomial political system. It's a democratic republic. There's nothing anywhere in the way the American system of governance was set up (the Constitution) that dictates there be two political parties.
What you're referring to is the modern devolution of American political parties into only two major ones that control nearly all political capital and agree on the vast majority of issues when it comes to what policies are actually enacted.
What it suggests is that you believe there can be nothing better than what one of these two political parties (in your case, Republicans) have to offer. It assumes that the nation's governance basically works well and the only way to really improve it is to install more Republicans in power.
Anyone who thinks that the government and its institutions and our system work well and the only avenues for improvement are either the extremely narrow window of ideas and actions implemented by one of those two parties I think basically lives in a fantasy land, is unfamiliar with the vast range of possibilities, or cannot see the forest for the trees.
There are much better options out there. And it doesn't have to be my relatively radical beliefs either. Even mainstream third parties are intended to offer alternatives, there's nothing inherently American about having just two parties, and to look at it that way is rather sad and defeatist. Even if you vote Republican, you admitted earlier they've diverged from the values you believe during the last Republican administation in significant ways. Do you really think Republican rule is the best we can do? If not, why buy into this false dichotomy of merely binomial choice?
I would put my education and subsequent understanding of history and human nature against yours any day (from The Great Books of The Western World to the present, I'm a voracious reader of political, economic, historical, and religious texts). I mean, you cited Jonah Goldberg's thoroughly discredited revisionist nonsense to attempt to prove a point. But this isn't a pissing contest.
You don't care to address how different leftism is from the Democratic party. It doesn't conform to your simplistic view of the world and this country. So, okay. Not much more to be said if you won't engage in a debate on its merits. Take it easy.
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