2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The #1 key to the Democratic candidate winning in November is... [View all]HumanityExperiment
(1,442 posts)those that hold stronger ties to ideology are a voting bloc.. what you're leaving out is we only have a two party system within the political process here in USA...
Imagine if we have a multiparty system, which will never happen due to the powerful interests within the two parties to keep any other parties from forming let alone remaining viable...
What you call 'independents' I call more ideologically pure, and it is these folks that party 'loyalists' denigrate or marginalize much to their chagrin
Again I'll point out the SD rule that was DESIGNED by party loyalists to PREVENT another Jimmy Carter situation from ever occurring again within the DEM party... I fully expect GOP to invoke something similar to prevent another Trump situation occurring again after this election cycle
I find it highly ironic that political parties within a democratic republic society to be so adverse to actual democracy within it's very structure