re: #132 William Barnett-Lewis

Best? That would be both parties splitting.

A left wing democratic socialist party ala western Europe

A center right “Democratic Party” ala present US

A center right “Republican Party” ala the US during the Eisenhower Administration

A right wing “Conservative Party” that can have all the rest so long as even they throw the Falangists under the bus :)

We’re getting there. 40 years from now, most of what passes for social issues will be settled by the Boomer Die-off and the parties will go back to being economic mirrors. I pray I live long enough to see that though since I was born at the tail of the boomers/very early X, it’s unlikely but that will be better for my son. Pity his generation will still have to clean up the shit piles left behind by boomers left and right.

You may only have three parties there. Today’s Democratic Party isn’t far from where Eisenhower’s Republican Party was, except possibly for issues that didn’t loom large back then, like gay rights and abortion. Don’t forget that it was Nixon who established the EPA and even instituted wage and price controls, which even the most liberal Democrat wouldn’t consider today. And pro-choice Republicans used to be reasonably common.