I don't think that is accurate. Both parties play politics to manipulate and control their bases. Not to increase them.
Increasing your base implies that you are attempting to gain converts. But really, what the parties want to do is to reduce their bases down, trading quantity for purity. That's why we have such bad gerrymandering problems.
I agree. The extreme right and left are dominating both parties reducing their broader appeal.
That's because both parties are drifting further and further away from each other. However the parties cater to their constituents.
On the right, we are sick of our establishment sector. Donald Trump was a protest vote. The constitutionalists are pushing the party more right.
On the left, the US Communist Party supported the last three Democrat presidential contenders, and gave accolades to Bernie Sanders, an admitted Socialist.
So where is the middle ground between constitutionalism and Communism? There is none. And that's why I've been saying for some time, that we need to divide our country in half and have two separate countries instead. Conservatives on one side, and liberals on the other. The line would be drawn from north to south, and up to the vote of all Americans.
I would have zero problems with never having to put up with liberalism ever again. In fact, if my side of the country was voted as the conservative side and the liberals had to move out. My property value would triple overnight.
You are absolutely incorrect about your communism analogy. The left is moving toward democratic socialism. I think they are going to far to the left. But Trump is moving toward an Oligarchy. His favorite leaders are Putin and Kim Jung Un. Dictatorship. Trump loves Russia, Communist. He feels the strength of the Chinese government is taking advantage of the weaknesses of our democracy. China is a Communist oligarchy. Trump is overriding the separation of powers set up in our Constitution to give him the powers he wants.
Trump is infatuated with major Communist countries, especially Russia.
You said: "The left is moving toward democratic socialism."
Do you know what our Constitutional founders believed? Most of them believed that all men should be treated equally under the law.
Do you know what your Democrat Socialists do if they're not reminded the Constitution protects people's right to the pursuit of happiness?
Let's just take a recent example. Maxine Waters already is a Democrat Socialist, and she loves her base and evvvvvvvvvvvvvrybody who voted for her. Guess how this monumental Democrat Socialist actually acts when she is given a responsible position in Congress, to which she swore she would uphold the Constitution for the good of the people of the United States of America.
Guess how her people treat other American citizens, oh, let's say, the people who work in the President's office. THEY HARASS THEM OVER A WALL PROJECT THEIR BOSS VOTED FOR TWO YEARS EARLIER because they're Republicans. They are also citizens of the United States. Did they get equal rights to the pursuit of happiness on their lunch hours in which her human hounds went to their offices, spied on their comings and goings, followed them to a public restaurant when ever they could and harassed all the happiness they ever had out of them.
Maxine Waters violated Separation of State by sicking her dogs on the Executive Branch employes for several months. The Constitutionalists in the Congress put an end to that little episode in American history, because the next step would have been for the President to have his office workers walked back and forth with both barrels loaded against those nasty little aparatchiks.
Mr. Mudd, your party is all mouth for everybody else to be perfect while they exercise not only criminal behaviors, but also unconstitutional ones against people they disagree with.
That's what the Communist Party is ok with, and so are Socialist Democrats in the Democrat Party.
The moral of this story is a cliché, but I'm gonna say it one more time: If it looks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, and if it acts like a duck. Hey! It's a duck!
And there is zero difference in the platform of the Social Democrats like Maxine Waters, of the United States' Congress, and the Soviet Socialist Republic's Duma.
