Democrats vs Republicans rights and wrongs! The political dilemma that is facing Americans.

[Luckyone]

It is clearly evident that in the past 10-18 years, the parties have changed and what is worse, is that both parties have changed for the worse.

What Americans think are major problems among members of the Democratic and Republican parties​

What’s the Matter With the Democrats?​

It’s been a hard year for the Democrats. Well before concerns over President Joe Biden’s age rocked the presidential campaign, the party was forced to confront a grim political reality: voters did not decisively prefer them to the Republicans. Despite Donald Trump’s criminal conviction, open bigotry, history of sexual assault, semi-incoherent ramblings, and general unfitness for office; despite January 6, the end of national abortion rights, and the stumbles of the Republican House majority; despite a notable drop in violent crime and an economy that is performing statistically as well as it has in years—the best Democrats could hope for in November was a slim victory. Whatever effect swapping Biden for Harris might have, it won’t alter the underlying reality: the Democrats are roughly as popular as Trump’s Republicans, and the general election could be decided by a coin flip.

Why the GOP Is Doomed​

The party faces a crisis of confidence that has many symptoms—repudiation in the most sophisticated parts of the country, widespread distrust of the Republican leadership, an inability to speak coherently on issues. All of them grow out of the same root cause: a vain search to rediscover the formula that made that unformulaic president Ronald Reagan so broadly appealing—even beloved. Congressional Republicans triumphed decisively in 1994 on such Reaganite issues as free trade, welfare reform, and shrinking the government. But, thanks to a deficit-dissolving economy and a dwindling memory of the Cold War, those issues were of declining importance even then and have since given way to a bipartisan consensus. Consensus, of course, is only another way of describing the issues that have been taken off the table. What remains for the party to talk about? On first thought, not much. The Republican strategist Ed Gillespie says, “We’re like the dog that caught the bus.”

They are infuriating voters by blaming them at every turn for the party’s failure to win their hearts. In other words, the Republicans are looking more and more like the Democrats of the 1970s and 1980s and less and less like the party that overthrew them.

In addition, one thing that has also changed are the extremes that each party has gone to (regarding abortion and sexual orientation) with the left defending those vehemently and the right opposing those vehemently!

Such a division between the parties cannot end well (under any circumstances), given that disunity among "Americans" is the result and the last time such disunity occurred, it brought the Civil war and all the negative circumstances attached to it. We are not likely to have a Civil war as what was seen in the 19th century, but what could make the consequences of this disunity worse is that we are now at risk of this disunity being taken advantage of by world powers (such as China, Russia, Europe or even our neighbors (Canada and Mexico), and it could mean our entire nation might suffer a defeat we would not be able to recover from.

Americans need to get away from party affiliations (I am an Independent) and vote for qualified people that have the best interests in the people and not in the party platforms. By voting for the individual (not for the party), we open the door for something good to ultimately happen.

We need to get away from Trump, Hegseth, RFK, Miller, Schumer, Ocasio, Casar, Omar and others like them. These people are not willing to compromise with the other party.

 

[Doc7505]

It is clearly evident that in the past 10-18 years, the parties have changed and what is worse, is that both parties have changed for the worse.

What Americans think are major problems among members of the Democratic and Republican parties​

What’s the Matter With the Democrats?​

It’s been a hard year for the Democrats. Well before concerns over President Joe Biden’s age rocked the presidential campaign, the party was forced to confront a grim political reality: voters did not decisively prefer them to the Republicans. Despite Donald Trump’s criminal conviction, open bigotry, history of sexual assault, semi-incoherent ramblings, and general unfitness for office; despite January 6, the end of national abortion rights, and the stumbles of the Republican House majority; despite a notable drop in violent crime and an economy that is performing statistically as well as it has in years—the best Democrats could hope for in November was a slim victory. Whatever effect swapping Biden for Harris might have, it won’t alter the underlying reality: the Democrats are roughly as popular as Trump’s Republicans, and the general election could be decided by a coin flip.

Why the GOP Is Doomed​

The party faces a crisis of confidence that has many symptoms—repudiation in the most sophisticated parts of the country, widespread distrust of the Republican leadership, an inability to speak coherently on issues. All of them grow out of the same root cause: a vain search to rediscover the formula that made that unformulaic president Ronald Reagan so broadly appealing—even beloved. Congressional Republicans triumphed decisively in 1994 on such Reaganite issues as free trade, welfare reform, and shrinking the government. But, thanks to a deficit-dissolving economy and a dwindling memory of the Cold War, those issues were of declining importance even then and have since given way to a bipartisan consensus. Consensus, of course, is only another way of describing the issues that have been taken off the table. What remains for the party to talk about? On first thought, not much. The Republican strategist Ed Gillespie says, “We’re like the dog that caught the bus.”

They are infuriating voters by blaming them at every turn for the party’s failure to win their hearts. In other words, the Republicans are looking more and more like the Democrats of the 1970s and 1980s and less and less like the party that overthrew them.

In addition, one thing that has also changed are the extremes that each party has gone to (regarding abortion and sexual orientation) with the left defending those vehemently and the right opposing those vehemently!

Such a division between the parties cannot end well (under any circumstances), given that disunity among "Americans" is the result and the last time such disunity occurred, it brought the Civil war and all the negative circumstances attached to it. We are not likely to have a Civil war as what was seen in the 19th century, but what could make the consequences of this disunity worse is that we are now at risk of this disunity being taken advantage of by world powers (such as China, Russia, Europe or even our neighbors (Canada and Mexico), and it could mean our entire nation might suffer a defeat we would not be able to recover from.

Americans need to get away from party affiliations (I am an Independent) and vote for qualified people that have the best interests in the people and not in the party platforms. By voting for the individual (not for the party), we open the door for something good to ultimately happen.

We need to get away from Trump, Hegseth, RFK, Miller, Schumer, Ocasio, Casar, Omar and others like them. These people are not willing to compromise with the other party.

<~~~~~~~~~~>
So, in the end, Democrats and Republicans have once again reached an impasse similar to 1861, where Democrats insisted on slavery and were will to sacrifice others to attain their goals.
Will it ultimately reach another Civil War? That is yet to be seen.

 

[MarathonMike]

It is clearly evident that in the past 10-18 years, the parties have changed and what is worse, is that both parties have changed for the worse.

What Americans think are major problems among members of the Democratic and Republican parties​

What’s the Matter With the Democrats?​

It’s been a hard year for the Democrats. Well before concerns over President Joe Biden’s age rocked the presidential campaign, the party was forced to confront a grim political reality: voters did not decisively prefer them to the Republicans. Despite Donald Trump’s criminal conviction, open bigotry, history of sexual assault, semi-incoherent ramblings, and general unfitness for office; despite January 6, the end of national abortion rights, and the stumbles of the Republican House majority; despite a notable drop in violent crime and an economy that is performing statistically as well as it has in years—the best Democrats could hope for in November was a slim victory. Whatever effect swapping Biden for Harris might have, it won’t alter the underlying reality: the Democrats are roughly as popular as Trump’s Republicans, and the general election could be decided by a coin flip.

Why the GOP Is Doomed​

The party faces a crisis of confidence that has many symptoms—repudiation in the most sophisticated parts of the country, widespread distrust of the Republican leadership, an inability to speak coherently on issues. All of them grow out of the same root cause: a vain search to rediscover the formula that made that unformulaic president Ronald Reagan so broadly appealing—even beloved. Congressional Republicans triumphed decisively in 1994 on such Reaganite issues as free trade, welfare reform, and shrinking the government. But, thanks to a deficit-dissolving economy and a dwindling memory of the Cold War, those issues were of declining importance even then and have since given way to a bipartisan consensus. Consensus, of course, is only another way of describing the issues that have been taken off the table. What remains for the party to talk about? On first thought, not much. The Republican strategist Ed Gillespie says, “We’re like the dog that caught the bus.”

They are infuriating voters by blaming them at every turn for the party’s failure to win their hearts. In other words, the Republicans are looking more and more like the Democrats of the 1970s and 1980s and less and less like the party that overthrew them.

In addition, one thing that has also changed are the extremes that each party has gone to (regarding abortion and sexual orientation) with the left defending those vehemently and the right opposing those vehemently!

Such a division between the parties cannot end well (under any circumstances), given that disunity among "Americans" is the result and the last time such disunity occurred, it brought the Civil war and all the negative circumstances attached to it. We are not likely to have a Civil war as what was seen in the 19th century, but what could make the consequences of this disunity worse is that we are now at risk of this disunity being taken advantage of by world powers (such as China, Russia, Europe or even our neighbors (Canada and Mexico), and it could mean our entire nation might suffer a defeat we would not be able to recover from.

Americans need to get away from party affiliations (I am an Independent) and vote for qualified people that have the best interests in the people and not in the party platforms. By voting for the individual (not for the party), we open the door for something good to ultimately happen.

We need to get away from Trump, Hegseth, RFK, Miller, Schumer, Ocasio, Casar, Omar and others like them. These people are not willing to compromise with the other party.

What a "fair and balanced" assessment of the political parties from Banker.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

When I was young, the republican party was conservative, and the democrat party was liberal.

They have both shifted to the left in the 54 years since I first voted so today the Republican party represents more liberal principles than democrat, which is downright authoritarian.

 

[DGS49]

The Democrat party of 2026 has blown the concept of "liberal" out of the water. They are LEFTIST.

What Liberal wants to eradicate a Federal agency merely because it seeks to enforce laws that they don't like? What Liberal wants to give people a choice about what gender they are? What Liberal FIGHTS to protect the "rights" of people who broke our laws to come into the country, and are feeding off our Social Safety Net? What Liberal wants to confiscate the wealth of successful people - when the INCOME is already taxed at confiscatory rates - just because they envy their success? What Liberal DEMANDS that Government discriminate on the basis of race? What Liberal demands that elected officials be removed from office (or killed?) because they don't like them doing what they promised they would do when running for office.

There are a few Liberals remaining in the Democrat party, but it is now dominated by Leftists who HATE America and everything it used to stand for.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

The Democrat party of 2026 has blown the concept of "liberal" out of the water. They are LEFTIST.

What Liberal wants to eradicate a Federal agency merely because it seeks to enforce laws that they don't like? What Liberal wants to give people a choice about what gender they are? What Liberal FIGHTS to protect the "rights" of people who broke our laws to come into the country, and are feeding off our Social Safety Net? What Liberal wants to confiscate the wealth of successful people - when the INCOME is already taxed at confiscatory rates - just because they envy their success? What Liberal DEMANDS that Government discriminate on the basis of race? What Liberal demands that elected officials be removed from office (or killed?) because they don't like them doing what they promised they would do when running for office.

There are a few Liberals remaining in the Democrat party, but it is now dominated by Leftists who HATE America and everything it used to stand for.

I would add at least one more.

What liberal would regard all people according to their tribe and not their individual qualities.

 

[IM2]

It's time to face the fact of the current white backlash and stop pussyfooting around the issue. Democrats have not gone too far to the left. Whites chose to vote for racism and white identity in 2024. That's why 57 percent of white voters chose Trump, a man who failed the first time in office, over a black candidate. Every other group in America voted in the majority for Harris. This is the problem, and it's time whites on all sides face it, then fix it.

 

[Mac1958]

We need to get away from Trump, Hegseth, RFK, Miller, Schumer, Ocasio, Casar, Omar and others like them. These people are not willing to compromise with the other party.

It won't happen unless and until we fix a "system" (ha) that incentivizes and rewards the worst impulses of its participants.

• Strict Term Limits
• Ranked Choice Voting
• Bipartisan Redistricting Committees
• Publicly-funded Elections
• Open Primaries

Yes, each of the above have flaws. But they would reduce the effect of money in politics and eliminate the long term building of power bases and influence.

Unless we choose to fix this, we deserve what we get: This goddamn mess, the lunatics running the asylum.

 

[Votto]

It won't happen unless and until we fix a "system" (ha) that incentivizes and rewards the worst impulses of its participants.

• Strict Term Limits
• Ranked Choice Voting
• Bipartisan Redistricting Committees
• Publicly-funded Elections
• Open Primaries

Yes, each of the above have flaws. But they would reduce the effect of money in politics and eliminate the long term building of power bases and influence.

Unless we choose to fix this, we deserve what we get: This goddamn mess, the lunatics running the asylum.

Good Lord, I might as well be reading about how to fix the mafia.

 

[Votto]

It is clearly evident that in the past 10-18 years, the parties have changed and what is worse, is that both parties have changed for the worse.

What Americans think are major problems among members of the Democratic and Republican parties​

What’s the Matter With the Democrats?​

It’s been a hard year for the Democrats. Well before concerns over President Joe Biden’s age rocked the presidential campaign, the party was forced to confront a grim political reality: voters did not decisively prefer them to the Republicans. Despite Donald Trump’s criminal conviction, open bigotry, history of sexual assault, semi-incoherent ramblings, and general unfitness for office; despite January 6, the end of national abortion rights, and the stumbles of the Republican House majority; despite a notable drop in violent crime and an economy that is performing statistically as well as it has in years—the best Democrats could hope for in November was a slim victory. Whatever effect swapping Biden for Harris might have, it won’t alter the underlying reality: the Democrats are roughly as popular as Trump’s Republicans, and the general election could be decided by a coin flip.

Why the GOP Is Doomed​

The party faces a crisis of confidence that has many symptoms—repudiation in the most sophisticated parts of the country, widespread distrust of the Republican leadership, an inability to speak coherently on issues. All of them grow out of the same root cause: a vain search to rediscover the formula that made that unformulaic president Ronald Reagan so broadly appealing—even beloved. Congressional Republicans triumphed decisively in 1994 on such Reaganite issues as free trade, welfare reform, and shrinking the government. But, thanks to a deficit-dissolving economy and a dwindling memory of the Cold War, those issues were of declining importance even then and have since given way to a bipartisan consensus. Consensus, of course, is only another way of describing the issues that have been taken off the table. What remains for the party to talk about? On first thought, not much. The Republican strategist Ed Gillespie says, “We’re like the dog that caught the bus.”

They are infuriating voters by blaming them at every turn for the party’s failure to win their hearts. In other words, the Republicans are looking more and more like the Democrats of the 1970s and 1980s and less and less like the party that overthrew them.

In addition, one thing that has also changed are the extremes that each party has gone to (regarding abortion and sexual orientation) with the left defending those vehemently and the right opposing those vehemently!

Such a division between the parties cannot end well (under any circumstances), given that disunity among "Americans" is the result and the last time such disunity occurred, it brought the Civil war and all the negative circumstances attached to it. We are not likely to have a Civil war as what was seen in the 19th century, but what could make the consequences of this disunity worse is that we are now at risk of this disunity being taken advantage of by world powers (such as China, Russia, Europe or even our neighbors (Canada and Mexico), and it could mean our entire nation might suffer a defeat we would not be able to recover from.

Americans need to get away from party affiliations (I am an Independent) and vote for qualified people that have the best interests in the people and not in the party platforms. By voting for the individual (not for the party), we open the door for something good to ultimately happen.

We need to get away from Trump, Hegseth, RFK, Miller, Schumer, Ocasio, Casar, Omar and others like them. These people are not willing to compromise with the other party.

I dunno what rock you climbed out of, but did you watch the last election go down?

You had perhaps the worst Presidential candidate in US history, a man that the media and his own party covered for saying Biden was mentally fit to be President.24/7. Then the Presidential debate happened. Essentially, Biden performed so horribly, that immediately after the debate, even the news sources that said Biden was just fine openly calling for his removal because it was obvious to 99.99999% of humanity that Biden was not mentally fit. It was one of those rare occurrences where the truth was so self-evident to all, that lies no longer worked. The next thing you know, Kamala was appointed the nominee, something that had never been done in US political history forcing democracy to take a back seat I reckon. But the crazy part was, they still continued the lie that Biden was mentally fit, even though the world saw otherwise, and even though forcefully taking Biden's nomination away and giving it to Kamala pretty much admitted this. But yet................they still could not tell us the truth that Biden was not mentally fit, and let Biden remain in place for months as President, putting the country at risk had any serious issues occurred during that time. On top of that, you had Kamala as the nominee, who was perhaps one of the worst Presidential nominees in US history, a person who was chosen by Biden to be his VP, ONLY because of her sex, her party, and her skin color, and the fact she was politically connected. However, she was the first person who had to drop out of the DNC Presidential race, because not even democrats liked her. It is as though the DNC wanted Trump to win because no one could be this retarded. Even retarded people are not this retarded.

But as if that were not enough, you had the woke police out at every turn, in every school, in every workplace with children in public schools being told they were either a victim or a victimizer due to the color of their skin. And you had massive inflation with a border crisis of immigrants that the DNC basically ignored until the very end of Biden's 4 years. People were just damned sick of it.

And targeting Trump did not help matters either. Here is a man that had been targeted for impeachment twice, yet he remained. Why, if he was so guilty? Here was a man who was targeted for criminal investigations, which claimed that he was a felon and a rapist, yet he remained a free man. Why, if he was so guilty? And here was a man who was targeted for assassination, with blood streaming down his face he gives a fist pump of defiance to the world. Trump by all account had become the most vetted politician in US political history. Since it made people sympathize with Trump, the Left immediately had to claim it was all staged. Hilarious! Anything that he might have possibly done had been dug up repeatedly, and prosecuted, yet the DNC could not put him behind bars, yet the DNC could not remove him as President, yet the DNC could not kill him. Now step back and look at all that and try to understand how this all blew up in the DNC's face because of the spectacle they had made of themselves. Do you not understand that this continuous assault upon Trump, not only failed, but it made the country and the world hate the DNC, either for misapplying their resistance to Trump, or for their incompetence in prosecuting Trump, that is, if you really believed he was as guilty as they insisted he was.

And I did not even get to Covid, the DNC were complete asshats on how they handled it, forcing people to get a vaccine that was dangerous and then destroying them if they tried to tell the world it was not safe. And guess what, they learned NOTHING from any of this, and are poised to do it all over again.

You essentially missed all of that in your analysis of the DNC. How is that possible?

All you can hope now, is that the country is fed up with the cost of living and wars abroad, and people simply being sick of Trump, all to return the same circus they left when Trump entered the Oval Office once again.

Make no mistake, a vote for the DNC this midterm is a vote for the impeachment circus to resume as where they left off. Nothing else will change.

 

[Luckyone]

It won't happen unless and until we fix a "system" (ha) that incentivizes and rewards the worst impulses of its participants.

• Strict Term Limits
• Ranked Choice Voting
• Bipartisan Redistricting Committees
• Publicly-funded Elections
• Open Primaries

Yes, each of the above have flaws. But they would reduce the effect of money in politics and eliminate the long term building of power bases and influence.

Unless we choose to fix this, we deserve what we get: This goddamn mess, the lunatics running the asylum.

The reply about it sounding like trying to fix the mafia is correct. What we all need to do individually is to vote for people that are truly caring about Americans and not about the issues

I dunno what rock you climbed out of, but did you watch the last election go down?

You had perhaps the worst Presidential candidate in US history, a man that the media and his own party covered for saying Biden was mentally fit to be President.24/7. Then the Presidential debate happened. Essentially, Biden performed so horribly, that immediately after the debate, even the news sources that said Biden was just fine openly calling for his removal because it was obvious to 99.99999% of humanity that Biden was not mentally fit. It was one of those rare occurrences where the truth was so self-evident to all, that lies no longer worked. The next thing you know, Kamala was appointed the nominee, something that had never been done in US political history forcing democracy to take a back seat I reckon. But the crazy part was, they still continued the lie that Biden was mentally fit, even though the world saw otherwise, and even though forcefully taking Biden's nomination away and giving it to Kamala pretty much admitted this. But yet................they still could not tell us the truth that Biden was not mentally fit, and let Biden remain in place for months as President, putting the country at risk had any serious issues occurred during that time. On top of that, you had Kamala as the nominee, who was perhaps one of the worst Presidential nominees in US history, a person who was chosen by Biden to be his VP, ONLY because of her sex, her party, and her skin color, and the fact she was politically connected. However, she was the first person who had to drop out of the DNC Presidential race, because not even democrats liked her. It is as though the DNC wanted Trump to win because no one could be this retarded. Even retarded people are not this retarded.

But as if that were not enough, you had the woke police out at every turn, in every school, in every workplace with children in public schools being told they were either a victim or a victimizer due to the color of their skin. And you had massive inflation with a border crisis of immigrants that the DNC basically ignored until the very end of Biden's 4 years. People were just damned sick of it.

And targeting Trump did not help matters either. Here is a man that had been targeted for impeachment twice, yet he remained. Why, if he was so guilty? Here was a man who was targeted for criminal investigations, which claimed that he was a felon and a rapist, yet he remained a free man. Why, if he was so guilty? And here was a man who was targeted for assassination, with blood streaming down his face he gives a fist pump of defiance to the world. Trump by all account had become the most vetted politician in US political history. Since it made people sympathize with Trump, the Left immediately had to claim it was all staged. Hilarious! Anything that he might have possibly done had been dug up repeatedly, and prosecuted, yet the DNC could not put him behind bars, yet the DNC could not remove him as President, yet the DNC could not kill him. Now step back and look at all that and try to understand how this all blew up in the DNC's face because of the spectacle they had made of themselves. Do you not understand that this continuous assault upon Trump, not only failed, but it made the country and the world hate the DNC, either for misapplying their resistance to Trump, or for their incompetence in prosecuting Trump, that is, if you really believed he was as guilty as they insisted he was.

And I did not even get to Covid, the DNC were complete asshats on how they handled it, forcing people to get a vaccine that was dangerous and then destroying them if they tried to tell the world it was not safe. And guess what, they learned NOTHING from any of this, and are poised to do it all over again.

You essentially missed all of that in your analysis of the DNC. How is that possible?

All you can hope now, is that the country is fed up with the cost of living and wars abroad, and people simply being sick of Trump, all to return the same circus they left when Trump entered the Oval Office once again.

Make no mistake, a vote for the DNC this midterm is a vote for the impeachment circus to resume as where they left off. Nothing else will change.

I dunno what rock you climbed out of, but did you watch the last election go down?

I dunno what planet you are living in? I gave links to everything in the OP, meaning that this was NOT an opinion of mine but information from MULTIPLE sources. It has data, statistics and facts and given your answer, you put no credence to any of those but only to your OPINION.

Your opinion does not take into consideration what the subject of the OP is, which is that BOTH parties have some severe problems that are affecting Americans. It is a comparison OP that does not key on one party but a comparison of both. Your answer is biased because you key only on the Democrats and do not even address what problems the right has caused.

 

[Doc7505]

It is clearly evident that in the past 10-18 years, the parties have changed and what is worse, is that both parties have changed for the worse.

What Americans think are major problems among members of the Democratic and Republican parties​

What’s the Matter With the Democrats?​

It’s been a hard year for the Democrats. Well before concerns over President Joe Biden’s age rocked the presidential campaign, the party was forced to confront a grim political reality: voters did not decisively prefer them to the Republicans. Despite Donald Trump’s criminal conviction, open bigotry, history of sexual assault, semi-incoherent ramblings, and general unfitness for office; despite January 6, the end of national abortion rights, and the stumbles of the Republican House majority; despite a notable drop in violent crime and an economy that is performing statistically as well as it has in years—the best Democrats could hope for in November was a slim victory. Whatever effect swapping Biden for Harris might have, it won’t alter the underlying reality: the Democrats are roughly as popular as Trump’s Republicans, and the general election could be decided by a coin flip.

Why the GOP Is Doomed​

The party faces a crisis of confidence that has many symptoms—repudiation in the most sophisticated parts of the country, widespread distrust of the Republican leadership, an inability to speak coherently on issues. All of them grow out of the same root cause: a vain search to rediscover the formula that made that unformulaic president Ronald Reagan so broadly appealing—even beloved. Congressional Republicans triumphed decisively in 1994 on such Reaganite issues as free trade, welfare reform, and shrinking the government. But, thanks to a deficit-dissolving economy and a dwindling memory of the Cold War, those issues were of declining importance even then and have since given way to a bipartisan consensus. Consensus, of course, is only another way of describing the issues that have been taken off the table. What remains for the party to talk about? On first thought, not much. The Republican strategist Ed Gillespie says, “We’re like the dog that caught the bus.”

They are infuriating voters by blaming them at every turn for the party’s failure to win their hearts. In other words, the Republicans are looking more and more like the Democrats of the 1970s and 1980s and less and less like the party that overthrew them.

In addition, one thing that has also changed are the extremes that each party has gone to (regarding abortion and sexual orientation) with the left defending those vehemently and the right opposing those vehemently!

Such a division between the parties cannot end well (under any circumstances), given that disunity among "Americans" is the result and the last time such disunity occurred, it brought the Civil war and all the negative circumstances attached to it. We are not likely to have a Civil war as what was seen in the 19th century, but what could make the consequences of this disunity worse is that we are now at risk of this disunity being taken advantage of by world powers (such as China, Russia, Europe or even our neighbors (Canada and Mexico), and it could mean our entire nation might suffer a defeat we would not be able to recover from.

Americans need to get away from party affiliations (I am an Independent) and vote for qualified people that have the best interests in the people and not in the party platforms. By voting for the individual (not for the party), we open the door for something good to ultimately happen.

We need to get away from Trump, Hegseth, RFK, Miller, Schumer, Ocasio, Casar, Omar and others like them. These people are not willing to compromise with the other party.

<~~~~~~~~~~>
Who on either side is willing to take up the flag?
Republicans have Vance and Rubio for their primary presidential candidates, while Democrats have Newsom, Pritzker and Mamdani.
Who will be the Peoples choice?

 

[Doc7505]

Meanwhile, Republicans are projected to gain 14 or more Congressional seats in the 2026 midterms, largely due to favorable redistricting outcomes in several states. However, historical trends suggest that the president's party typically loses ground in midterm elections, which could impact these projections.
Many states have undergone redistricting, which has generally favored Republican candidates. This process can significantly alter the political landscape by reshaping electoral districts.

 

[Man With A Plan]

It is clearly evident that in the past 10-18 years, the parties have changed and what is worse, is that both parties have changed for the worse.

What Americans think are major problems among members of the Democratic and Republican parties​

What’s the Matter With the Democrats?​

It’s been a hard year for the Democrats. Well before concerns over President Joe Biden’s age rocked the presidential campaign, the party was forced to confront a grim political reality: voters did not decisively prefer them to the Republicans. Despite Donald Trump’s criminal conviction, open bigotry, history of sexual assault, semi-incoherent ramblings, and general unfitness for office; despite January 6, the end of national abortion rights, and the stumbles of the Republican House majority; despite a notable drop in violent crime and an economy that is performing statistically as well as it has in years—the best Democrats could hope for in November was a slim victory. Whatever effect swapping Biden for Harris might have, it won’t alter the underlying reality: the Democrats are roughly as popular as Trump’s Republicans, and the general election could be decided by a coin flip.

Why the GOP Is Doomed​

The party faces a crisis of confidence that has many symptoms—repudiation in the most sophisticated parts of the country, widespread distrust of the Republican leadership, an inability to speak coherently on issues. All of them grow out of the same root cause: a vain search to rediscover the formula that made that unformulaic president Ronald Reagan so broadly appealing—even beloved. Congressional Republicans triumphed decisively in 1994 on such Reaganite issues as free trade, welfare reform, and shrinking the government. But, thanks to a deficit-dissolving economy and a dwindling memory of the Cold War, those issues were of declining importance even then and have since given way to a bipartisan consensus. Consensus, of course, is only another way of describing the issues that have been taken off the table. What remains for the party to talk about? On first thought, not much. The Republican strategist Ed Gillespie says, “We’re like the dog that caught the bus.”

They are infuriating voters by blaming them at every turn for the party’s failure to win their hearts. In other words, the Republicans are looking more and more like the Democrats of the 1970s and 1980s and less and less like the party that overthrew them.

In addition, one thing that has also changed are the extremes that each party has gone to (regarding abortion and sexual orientation) with the left defending those vehemently and the right opposing those vehemently!

Such a division between the parties cannot end well (under any circumstances), given that disunity among "Americans" is the result and the last time such disunity occurred, it brought the Civil war and all the negative circumstances attached to it. We are not likely to have a Civil war as what was seen in the 19th century, but what could make the consequences of this disunity worse is that we are now at risk of this disunity being taken advantage of by world powers (such as China, Russia, Europe or even our neighbors (Canada and Mexico), and it could mean our entire nation might suffer a defeat we would not be able to recover from.

Americans need to get away from party affiliations (I am an Independent) and vote for qualified people that have the best interests in the people and not in the party platforms. By voting for the individual (not for the party), we open the door for something good to ultimately happen.

We need to get away from Trump, Hegseth, RFK, Miller, Schumer, Ocasio, Casar, Omar and others like them. These people are not willing to compromise with the other party.

All that hot air? LOL

You know what the difference is between Republicans and Democrats, Lucky? Republican policies work. Democratic polices don't. Why would you "compromise" with someone who wants you to implement policies that have been shown over and over again...don't work? You may claim to be an independent but you vote the liberal party line which means you vote for policies that don't work.

 

[IM2]

I dunno what rock you climbed out of, but did you watch the last election go down?

You had perhaps the worst Presidential candidate in US history, a man that the media and his own party covered for saying Biden was mentally fit to be President.24/7. Then the Presidential debate happened. Essentially, Biden performed so horribly, that immediately after the debate, even the news sources that said Biden was just fine openly calling for his removal because it was obvious to 99.99999% of humanity that Biden was not mentally fit. It was one of those rare occurrences where the truth was so self-evident to all, that lies no longer worked. The next thing you know, Kamala was appointed the nominee, something that had never been done in US political history forcing democracy to take a back seat I reckon. But the crazy part was, they still continued the lie that Biden was mentally fit, even though the world saw otherwise, and even though forcefully taking Biden's nomination away and giving it to Kamala pretty much admitted this. But yet................they still could not tell us the truth that Biden was not mentally fit, and let Biden remain in place for months as President, putting the country at risk had any serious issues occurred during that time. On top of that, you had Kamala as the nominee, who was perhaps one of the worst Presidential nominees in US history, a person who was chosen by Biden to be his VP, ONLY because of her sex, her party, and her skin color, and the fact she was politically connected. However, she was the first person who had to drop out of the DNC Presidential race, because not even democrats liked her. It is as though the DNC wanted Trump to win because no one could be this retarded. Even retarded people are not this retarded.

But as if that were not enough, you had the woke police out at every turn, in every school, in every workplace with children in public schools being told they were either a victim or a victimizer due to the color of their skin. And you had massive inflation with a border crisis of immigrants that the DNC basically ignored until the very end of Biden's 4 years. People were just damned sick of it.

And targeting Trump did not help matters either. Here is a man that had been targeted for impeachment twice, yet he remained. Why, if he was so guilty? Here was a man who was targeted for criminal investigations, which claimed that he was a felon and a rapist, yet he remained a free man. Why, if he was so guilty? And here was a man who was targeted for assassination, with blood streaming down his face he gives a fist pump of defiance to the world. Trump by all account had become the most vetted politician in US political history. Since it made people sympathize with Trump, the Left immediately had to claim it was all staged. Hilarious! Anything that he might have possibly done had been dug up repeatedly, and prosecuted, yet the DNC could not put him behind bars, yet the DNC could not remove him as President, yet the DNC could not kill him. Now step back and look at all that and try to understand how this all blew up in the DNC's face because of the spectacle they had made of themselves. Do you not understand that this continuous assault upon Trump, not only failed, but it made the country and the world hate the DNC, either for misapplying their resistance to Trump, or for their incompetence in prosecuting Trump, that is, if you really believed he was as guilty as they insisted he was.

And I did not even get to Covid, the DNC were complete asshats on how they handled it, forcing people to get a vaccine that was dangerous and then destroying them if they tried to tell the world it was not safe. And guess what, they learned NOTHING from any of this, and are poised to do it all over again.

You essentially missed all of that in your analysis of the DNC. How is that possible?

All you can hope now, is that the country is fed up with the cost of living and wars abroad, and people simply being sick of Trump, all to return the same circus they left when Trump entered the Oval Office once again.

Make no mistake, a vote for the DNC this midterm is a vote for the impeachment circus to resume as where they left off. Nothing else will change.

This is all BS.

 

[Man With A Plan]

The reply about it sounding like trying to fix the mafia is correct. What we all need to do individually is to vote for people that are truly caring about Americans and not about the issues

I dunno what rock you climbed out of, but did you watch the last election go down?

I dunno what planet you are living in? I gave links to everything in the OP, meaning that this was NOT an opinion of mine but information from MULTIPLE sources. It has data, statistics and facts and given your answer, you put no credence to any of those but only to your OPINION.

Your opinion does not take into consideration what the subject of the OP is, which is that BOTH parties have some severe problems that are affecting Americans. It is a comparison OP that does not key on one party but a comparison of both. Your answer is biased because you key only on the Democrats and do not even address what problems the right has caused.

Did you read what you wrote in the OP, Lucky? That was the most one sided, completely biased post I've seen in years! For you to claim that it's not your "opinion" but "information from MULTIPLE source" is laughable!

 

[Luckyone]

Did you read what you wrote in the OP, Lucky? That was the most one sided, completely biased post I've seen in years! For you to claim that it's not your "opinion" but "information from MULTIPLE source" is laughable!

Prove your statement.?take something that was stated by me that is biased!!!!!

 

[JohnDB]

 

[LordBrownTrout]

What a "fair and balanced" assessment of the political parties from Banker.

He ain't fooling anyone with his independent claim. Lol.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

It is clearly evident that in the past 10-18 years, the parties have changed and what is worse, is that both parties have changed for the worse.

What Americans think are major problems among members of the Democratic and Republican parties​

What’s the Matter With the Democrats?​

It’s been a hard year for the Democrats. Well before concerns over President Joe Biden’s age rocked the presidential campaign, the party was forced to confront a grim political reality: voters did not decisively prefer them to the Republicans. Despite Donald Trump’s criminal conviction, open bigotry, history of sexual assault, semi-incoherent ramblings, and general unfitness for office; despite January 6, the end of national abortion rights, and the stumbles of the Republican House majority; despite a notable drop in violent crime and an economy that is performing statistically as well as it has in years—the best Democrats could hope for in November was a slim victory. Whatever effect swapping Biden for Harris might have, it won’t alter the underlying reality: the Democrats are roughly as popular as Trump’s Republicans, and the general election could be decided by a coin flip.

Why the GOP Is Doomed​

The party faces a crisis of confidence that has many symptoms—repudiation in the most sophisticated parts of the country, widespread distrust of the Republican leadership, an inability to speak coherently on issues. All of them grow out of the same root cause: a vain search to rediscover the formula that made that unformulaic president Ronald Reagan so broadly appealing—even beloved. Congressional Republicans triumphed decisively in 1994 on such Reaganite issues as free trade, welfare reform, and shrinking the government. But, thanks to a deficit-dissolving economy and a dwindling memory of the Cold War, those issues were of declining importance even then and have since given way to a bipartisan consensus. Consensus, of course, is only another way of describing the issues that have been taken off the table. What remains for the party to talk about? On first thought, not much. The Republican strategist Ed Gillespie says, “We’re like the dog that caught the bus.”

They are infuriating voters by blaming them at every turn for the party’s failure to win their hearts. In other words, the Republicans are looking more and more like the Democrats of the 1970s and 1980s and less and less like the party that overthrew them.

In addition, one thing that has also changed are the extremes that each party has gone to (regarding abortion and sexual orientation) with the left defending those vehemently and the right opposing those vehemently!

Such a division between the parties cannot end well (under any circumstances), given that disunity among "Americans" is the result and the last time such disunity occurred, it brought the Civil war and all the negative circumstances attached to it. We are not likely to have a Civil war as what was seen in the 19th century, but what could make the consequences of this disunity worse is that we are now at risk of this disunity being taken advantage of by world powers (such as China, Russia, Europe or even our neighbors (Canada and Mexico), and it could mean our entire nation might suffer a defeat we would not be able to recover from.

Americans need to get away from party affiliations (I am an Independent) and vote for qualified people that have the best interests in the people and not in the party platforms. By voting for the individual (not for the party), we open the door for something good to ultimately happen.

We need to get away from Trump, Hegseth, RFK, Miller, Schumer, Ocasio, Casar, Omar and others like them. These people are not willing to compromise with the other party.

You left out newsom, the one you'll be voting for if he wins the dem nominee.