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Its taken me a few days to really come to grips with the fact that **America now has its first segregationist as president in living history**.
What a dark and shameful day for America. **I truly am ashamed to call myself a US citizen** :(
I had so much hope back in 2008 when I voted for Obama and still believe in the Democratic party. But Obama was a disgrace and I regretted that decision ever since. It has been nothing but downhill since then, each time getting worse.. .First Bush with the Patriot act, Then Obama & Biden murdering US citizens and extending the Patriot Act, Then Trump generally being an idiot, and Now Biden a segregationist as president.. Can we sink any lower?
@freemo "can we sink any lower?" I ask myself this question frequently. I think the growing extremism on both sides is due to a combination of the gamification of our political system[1], our first-past-the-post voting system leading to two parties, and media consolidation leading to complete media separation of the two political parties. This ain't gonna magically reverse under Biden, so I only see both sides becoming more extreme and separated as time goes on.
[1] by this I mean the application of game theory to optimize for winning
@Demosthenes @freemo One possibility is that the Republican party collapses at some non-near-future point and another comes forth to take its place.
I have recently also been thinking of a third, weirder idea: an exclusively congressional party or block of independents designed to break gridlock in Congress by robbing both parties of majority. This may not change the executive branch, but it could make the legislative branch function again.
@freemo @Demosthenes Interesting point. I will definitely have to think about this.
@mathlover
I suspect it is more likely that the democrat party winds up loosing its power as a party and is replaced by a new liberal party. If you look at patterns of past party reversals it tends to follow ideological extremism and is very abrupt. In other words the party goes from having a near 50% hold over votes to almost 0 from one election to the next one, and it always seems to be the party that is on the ideological fringes/extremism with little tolerance to anyone on its half of the spectrum not at the fringe with it.
This describes the democrat party to a T and while the republicans have plenty of members who are extremist overall they tend to have a much healthier acceptance of different ideologies.
I think the last two elections make it really obvious the democrats wont last much longer consider they couldnt even win against Trump, a man with a vocab of about 15 words, the first round and the second rand barely won by a hair's breadth and even then still somehow found the two politicians on the left who could possibly be worse than trump.
Only reason Biden won at all and only democrats have managed to stay alive for the lastfew years is they lean really heavy on the propaganda machine, it works, but that only works so long. Democrats wont buy a constant stream of propaganda for forever and they just to have the substance anymore to win on anything other than propaganda apparently.
Their days are numbered.
@Demosthenes