The prerequisite for US political theatre is there has to be two parties. This is why speculating about one party no longer existing is always dumb. There will always be political realignment. I think people are confusing political realignment, which is probably happening now, with a party being doomed somehow. I could see the end result of this political realignment being the Democrats as neocons with rainbow characteristics and the Republicans as MAGA social democracy.
It might seem silly now, but I could see this happening by the mid 2030s. Mainstream LGBT is already thoroughly captured by the Democrats and willing accomplices of pinkwashing. And as for the Republicans, I've noticed how what's left of organized labor is shifting towards the Republicans, which would have been unthinkable even 15 years ago. The Democrats are losing organized labor and that Teamster poll showing them favoring Trump is only the beginning. At this point, all it takes is for a Democrat president to put down a traffic controller strike for organized labor to be a solid Republican voter bloc. The MAGA communist patsocs are clowns who no one takes seriously, but I do think a slight rebranding where the Soviet and communist iconography is replaced with more social democratic and USian iconography would sell pretty well among Republicans.
i mean people were legitimately better off under trump. the stimulus checks were the basically only time in my life (in my 30's) that anything from a president had an actual effect on me in a positive way. obamacare is shit as a worker, it's effectively a 200 dollar a month tax on my paycheck that covers nothing
obviously he won't do that again or whatever, but like it makes sense from a certain perspective to want him back instead of the absolute disdain the dems give workers lol
dems had the opportunity to up this with loan forgiveness, but here we are
The prerequisite for US political theatre is there has to be two parties. This is why speculating about one party no longer existing is always dumb. There will always be political realignment. I think people are confusing political realignment, which is probably happening now, with a party being doomed somehow. I could see the end result of this political realignment being the Democrats as neocons with rainbow characteristics and the Republicans as MAGA social democracy.
It might seem silly now, but I could see this happening by the mid 2030s. Mainstream LGBT is already thoroughly captured by the Democrats and willing accomplices of pinkwashing. And as for the Republicans, I've noticed how what's left of organized labor is shifting towards the Republicans, which would have been unthinkable even 15 years ago. The Democrats are losing organized labor and that Teamster poll showing them favoring Trump is only the beginning. At this point, all it takes is for a Democrat president to put down a traffic controller strike for organized labor to be a solid Republican voter bloc. The MAGA communist patsocs are clowns who no one takes seriously, but I do think a slight rebranding where the Soviet and communist iconography is replaced with more social democratic and USian iconography would sell pretty well among Republicans.
I'm getting really cursed "when MAGAsocialism comes to America it'll be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross" vibes
i mean people were legitimately better off under trump. the stimulus checks were the basically only time in my life (in my 30's) that anything from a president had an actual effect on me in a positive way. obamacare is shit as a worker, it's effectively a 200 dollar a month tax on my paycheck that covers nothing
obviously he won't do that again or whatever, but like it makes sense from a certain perspective to want him back instead of the absolute disdain the dems give workers lol
dems had the opportunity to up this with loan forgiveness, but here we are