2016 Postmortem

DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Tue Nov 8, 2016, 02:41 PM Nov 2016

Time for a New Party

David Brooks: “Personally I’ve always disdained talk of a third party, mostly because the structural barriers against such parties are so high, no matter how scintillatingly attractive they seem in theory. But it’s becoming clear that the need for a third party outweighs even the very real barriers.”

“The Republican Party will probably remain the white working-class party, favoring closed trade, closed borders and American withdrawal abroad. The Democratic Party, meanwhile, is increasingly dominated by its left/Sanders wing, which offers its own populism of the left.”

“There has to be a party for those who are now homeless. There has to be a party as confidently opposed to populism as populists are in favor of it.”

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Time for a New Party (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2016 OP

“There has to be a party for those who are now homeless" LiberalLovinLug Nov 2016 #4

LiberalLovinLug

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4. “There has to be a party for those who are now homeless"

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Nov 8, 2016, 02:57 PM

Nov 2016

A new party of the left of of the right? Its a little naive to just say it will be a party of those "opposed to populism". There is a populist element to most political victories.

What America needs is 4 parties. The two traditional parties plus one more progressive led by someone like Bernie Sanders, and one where the deplorables can play in their very own sandbox to siphon them off where we can keep an eye on them.

Then institute a proportional representative voting system. That would garner the new House or Senate a true representation of the population at large.

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