re: #89 Mattand

Re: GOP reform:

I just don’t think it’s going to happen.

At all.

We’re four years into watching a major party lose its shit over an African American running the country. The GOP is literally doing everything but officially organizing a lynch party to get Obama out of office. People are calling for another fucking Civil War. Republicans are destroying our economy because they are not getting their way.

Yet, despite all of this, people still vote for them, either because they’re as fucked up as the politicians, and they’re too scared or unwilling to see the party for what it’s become.

I really don’t know what the answer is. What worries me is that these guys are so convinced they live in Communist Russia circa 1938, anything they do is a potential danger to us all.

I think I want to see what happens in DC on the Fourth of July with the “2d Amendment March.” (my description) If it goes as I suspect the end result will range from no real change to a recoilling in outrage at these extremists. Either way Obdi’s prediction holds then - long, slow, painful but (relatively) non-violent minimization of the Ugly GOP, with the non-extremists either taking it back or creating their own. Like him I think it will be slow. However I think that after redistricting for the 2020 census it will be obvious.

Less likely but not zero is that it sparks the 27% to rise up in violence, in which case we get a 2d civil war to go with our second (near) depression. Bets are off at that point as regardless who wins they’ll change a lot of things after it’s done.