2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Stay ignorant my friends [View all]felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)she could run as a Republican, because her ideals and the ideals of her followers sound completely RW. And before anyone jumps on this both my parents were sane Republicans, I didn't agree on everything but I could see how their philosophy worked for them.
I totally believe that because that party imploded and there was a massive exodus to this party, we have had to experience being restructured to match the moderate Republican ideology.
In order that all Americans reclaim their voice is to find accurate representation to petition the government directly, right? So as an example, either the Social (FDR) Democrats form a group or the Third Way declare themselves an entity unto themselves (instead of forcing the party to conform to their ideology) we could get back to work on the problems of the day, like climate change and starving people and people being shot and stuff.
But we can't allow the PTB to restructure the party from the top to serve themselves, that is exactly backwards--it is us who tell them who we are. Because this is not working, the whole country just fighting it out in one party, this is nuts.