First past the post systems will always end up in a two party system. We have to get rid of it or it will always end that way.
Republicans reshaped their party from the inside via the Tea Party dorks. We’re all worse off for that, but - at this point, the only path forward is for Democrats to do the same, reshape the party by going hard left, vehemently attack the corporate Democrats (almost all of them).
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Didn’t agree 100% until November, but now 100% agree.
Centralism and incrementalism are full-on failures. If we’re going to lose we might as well go out fighting.
The high road is gone.
“When they go low, we go low…ish.”
I think at this point if they go low, you’re going to need to sweep the fucking leg. Looking in from the outside you’re not far away from all out authoritarian hellhole.
Make no mistake, I see it as very likely that this problem doesn’t get solved without significant violence.
