Longtime Republicans torn between party loyalty and Obamacare

[johnlucas]

65. The Democratic Party needs a cleansing as well

When the Republican Party inevitably dissolves, the Democratic Party will do just what it did when it was the Democratic-Republican Party of the 1820s.
It will split on itself being the only game in town.



Reminds me of wrestling & the group called the nWo (New World Order).
The nWo took over WCW (World Championship Wrestling) to the point that the nWo was the only must-see attraction.
What happened when the nWo conquered WCW?
Two of the 3 founders Hollywood Hulk Hogan & 'Big Sexy' Kevin Nash started fighting with each other.



Eventually Kevin Nash broke off with his own version of the nWo, the nWo Wolfpäc.
While Hulk Hogan kept the original version but called it nWo Hollywood.
Nash's group kept the logo but made it black & red.
Hogan's group kept the original colors of black & white.

Believe it or not watching pro wrestling taught me a lot about group dynamics & politics.
Laugh but it's true.

They say nature abhors a vacuum.
The vacuum will be filled but the Democratic Party split will be what fills it.
Those Centrists, the DINOS as you say, will hold one half.
And the Progressives will hold the other half.
No more of this strange bedfellows nonsense.
No more compromising plans before the fight even begins.

Either way the madman Republican extremists will be eliminated from the discussion.
I would rather deal with slow progress from Centrists than none at all from those Regressive fools.
By letting the Republican Party die & inevitably seeing the former less-insane Republicans join the Democratic Party...
...either the former Republicans will transform political identities the more time they spend in the party
OR
they will hold true to their old identity staking out a wing of the Democratic Party & force the likely split.

If they transform, that's a win-win & if they split off the Centrists, that's a win-win too.

There's no need to prop up the Republican Party.
They sealed their fate after 1964 by giving the bigots a political platform.
The party's organization gave political weight to a bunch of backwards-thinking fools & allowed them room to exist.
Without that organization bigots would be disparate & isolated eventually changing with the times because of it or dying out because of the political sanctions.

To put it simply the Republican Party allows bigotry to fester & not fade out.
That bigotry is at the heart of every bad policy that has been enacted over the past 40-something years.
Can improve or reform anything because this clique is always playing 'Get Them' or 'Keep Away'.
John Lucas