Dump the G.O.P. for a Grand New Party

[SecularMotion]

If a party could declare moral bankruptcy, today’s Republican Party would be in Chapter 11.

This party needs to just shut itself down and start over — now. Seriously, someone please start a New Republican Party!

America needs a healthy two-party system. America needs a healthy center-right party to ensure that the Democrats remain a healthy center-left party. America needs a center-right party ready to offer market-based solutions to issues like climate change. America needs a center-right party that will support common-sense gun laws. America needs a center-right party that will support common-sense fiscal policy. America needs a center-right party to support both free trade and aid to workers impacted by it. America needs a center-right party that appreciates how much more complicated foreign policy is today, when you have to manage weak and collapsing nations, not just muscle strong ones.

But this Republican Party is none of those things. Today’s G.O.P. is to governing what Trump University is to education — an ethically challenged enterprise that enriches and perpetuates itself by shedding all pretense of standing for real principles, or a truly relevant value proposition, and instead plays on the ignorance and fears of the public.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/opinion/dump-the-gop-for-a-grand-new-party.html

[merrily]

1. I don't know if there will be a new Republican party, but I think there will be a re-alignment soon.

Relatively soon, anyway. These things take time. However, I think this one is planned and on the way.

And I am not usually given to predictions.

[Doctor Jack]

3. The republican base is getting very old

The average fox news viewer is, without hyperbole or exaggeration, something like 77 years old. I could see, once nature takes its course, that the modern dems being the conservative republicans and people like sanders being the democrats.

[question everything]

2. Well said. But will anyone listen? (nt)

[Eleanors38]

4. But isn't it already re-named the "Grand Old Potty?"