Is the Democratic Party Facing an Expiration Date?

[Blaster]

Democrats are now fighting each other and that party is starting to implode.

 

[rightwinger]

Democrats are now fighting each other and that party is starting to implode.

Trump will wear out his welcome
He always does

 

[22lcidw]

Yep. The last time the budget was balanced, a quarter of a century ago, was with a Republican Congress and a Democratic president.

If only they made real cuts. Cuts that would stand the reduction of people spending money and to social programs.

 

[Rigby5]

It seems that important political events often have a 100 year/four generation life cycle before their emotional impact ultimately dissipates. For example, resentful feelings about the Civil War finally gave way to the Civil Rights movement a century later. Similarly, the patriotic fervor about WW1 has now been replaced by a more sober analysis of what role, if any, the US should have played in it. (I expect that WW2 will start to be objectively analyzed in about 20 years.)

This cycle may also be repeating itself in regard to the formation of the modern Democratic Party during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The last generation of people who lived through that period are fading away, and the new generation are barely aware of it. As a result, the political coalition which believed that Big Government was its great protector is starting to fracture into divergent special interests.

This raises the question of whether the Democratic Party should continue to exist. The hatred of Donald Trump is about the only discernible uniting cause still remaining, and that has a looming expiration date. After that, what will be left that is worth resurrecting? I ask this in the context of current political chatter about what the Democrats need to do to regain lost voters. I find these discussions to be shallow and even presumptuous. Why try to restore a rusting hulk that no longer has a functional purpose?

Interesting thoughts.
But while I voted for Trump out of lawfare sympathy, he blew it with illegal deportations, in discriminant cuts, and foolish tariffs.
Clearly immigration, financing, and tariffs are all under congressional jurisdiction and not for presidents.

However, I think all political parties have always been bad, and should be replaced by open elections.
That means eliminating the partisan primaries.
To prevent ties, you allow voters to rank all candidates.

 

[Rigby5]

In other words, dismantle what the majority of American voters, voted for.

The "majority" often vote for illegal and immoral things, like slavery, illegal wars, theft of native lands, etc.
We do not want "mob" rule, especially with irrational agitators like Alex Jones.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

In other words, dismantle what the majority of American voters, voted for.

Dismantle the American voter is the real goal. Getting rid of Donald Trump is merely a step along the road to the complete collapse of the United States.

 

[Rigby5]

It looks like the dems are going the way of the Whig Party due to deep divisions within the country.

Why the Whig Party Collapsed | HISTORY

For all its prominence and power in the mid-19th century, the Whig party became divided over slavery and couldn't keep it together.

www.history.com

Republicans have the same problem, since conservatives should be against thing like presidents deporting without hearings, tariffs that have no purpose, cuts in essential services while military waste is over half the federal budget.

 

[Rigby5]

Democrats are smelling rancid these days, like old eggs gone bad in your refrigerator.


And with hatred comes opposition. Democrats are left opposing everything good for America.

All they have left is flying to other countries worried about how some foreigner gang member is doing. They are running out of causes to champion.

Next up for democrats: rights for chicken eggs! Each one deserves a hearing first to decide if it want to be hatched or scrambled.

Wrong.
Kilmar came to the US 14 years ago as a juvenile, has no gang affiliation, committed no crimes, is married to a US citizen, has 2 US citizen children in the US, and is a productive tax payer.

There was no reason to deport him, and if he can be deported, anyone can be.
He is more native than European descendants are.

 

[Rigby5]

All the Democrats have left are activist judges.

And anyone against activist judges is a threat to the republic.

 

[Blaster]

And anyone against activist judges is a threat to the republic.

El Salvador has no problems with activist judges.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Democrats are now fighting each other and that party is starting to implode.

Hardly. Realigning, much like the GOP did with Trump, that orange butt.

 

[DonGlock26]

It seems that important political events often have a 100 year/four generation life cycle before their emotional impact ultimately dissipates. For example, resentful feelings about the Civil War finally gave way to the Civil Rights movement a century later. Similarly, the patriotic fervor about WW1 has now been replaced by a more sober analysis of what role, if any, the US should have played in it. (I expect that WW2 will start to be objectively analyzed in about 20 years.)

This cycle may also be repeating itself in regard to the formation of the modern Democratic Party during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The last generation of people who lived through that period are fading away, and the new generation are barely aware of it. As a result, the political coalition which believed that Big Government was its great protector is starting to fracture into divergent special interests.

This raises the question of whether the Democratic Party should continue to exist. The hatred of Donald Trump is about the only discernible uniting cause still remaining, and that has a looming expiration date. After that, what will be left that is worth resurrecting? I ask this in the context of current political chatter about what the Democrats need to do to regain lost voters. I find these discussions to be shallow and even presumptuous. Why try to restore a rusting hulk that no longer has a functional purpose?

The young commies are going to disappear the Jurassic Democrats.

 

[my2¢]

The two political parties need each other to lay claim to their supporters that only they themselves know what they're doing. Since neither party can get things right, the non-partisan voters handle things the best we're enabled by alternating between the two. My view over the years is that voters handle it like paddling a canoe, alternating strokes between left and right to keep us on course the best we can.

 

[jwoodie]

I appreciate the benefits of a two party system, but it should be based on policy differences, not personal hatred.

 

[Rigby5]

Dismantle the American voter is the real goal. Getting rid of Donald Trump is merely a step along the road to the complete collapse of the United States.

Wrong.
Presidents who bypass due process are the main threat to any republic.

 

[Rigby5]

El Salvador has no problems with activist judges.

El Salvador is a US puppet dictatorship.
It has no "activist judges" at all.

 

[Rigby5]

I appreciate the benefits of a two party system, but it should be based on policy differences, not personal hatred.

We need to open elections up to everyone and not just a 2 party system.
To avoid run offs, you just have voters rank all candidates.

 

[DonGlock26]

But while I voted for Trump

 

[Robert W]

(I expect that WW2 will start to be objectively analyzed in about 20 years.)

Start reading the Truth about FDR as shown in my avatar. The book was published in 1999.

 

[Robert W]

We need to open elections up to everyone and not just a 2 party system.
To avoid run offs, you just have voters rank all candidates.

Rank choice results in this system. Say you have 10 runners running the same race. Rather than the winner getting the trophy, the fans vote on who they like. And as they see it, 7 gets the trophy. It makes no sense at all.