• xenomor@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Have you ever listened to Democrats? The leadership keeps saying that they believe we need a strong Republican Party for some reason.

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      9 months ago

      Imagine the soundbites if they said they wanted to destroy the opposition party.

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        9 months ago

        The GOP had a sign that said “we are domestic terrorists.” Can we stop caring what these radicalized disruptors think? Anyone who claims to be a moderate at this point is not welcome in my house none the less would I want to be on the same side as them.

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          9 months ago

          Lol, it’s not the GOP base that the soundbite would be used against. It’s the dem base, the people who open the new york times homepage on the way to do their wordle every morning that would see the headline 'DEMS SAY GOP DESTRUCTION AT HAND, “TOTAL ONE PARTY DOMINATION IF WE PLAY OUR CARDS RIGHT” ’ that would gasp and be so rattled they forgot the word for Sunday in their Spanish Duolingo lesson.

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      9 months ago

      For better or worse we have a two dominant party system, which totally breaks down when one party decides to go it alone and only advance causes they can win with their votes.

      That is a weak party, so divided internally they don’t dare compromise externally.

      If we don’t have at LEAST two functional parties, it all falls apart.

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        9 months ago

        That sounds like an utterly stupid system that is fragile and easily manipulated… Go figure it’s ours…

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          9 months ago

          I’m not arguing with that, but it’s the system we have. We can modify it, improve upon it, or let it completely fall apart and be replaced with One Party Rule.

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      9 months ago

      They say this because their lobbyists want nothing to change and if the Republicans are too weak, Democrats may actually have to make peoples lives better or the whole charade falls apart.