I keep hearing how "we need a viable conservative party." Why? What for?

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45. And why would the demise of a national conservative party--

especially one that sees undermining democracy as its best and only way to gain or retain power--necessarily mean we'd be locked into a "positive feedback loop?"

There would still be primaries, after all. And right wing corporate media. And megachurches.

If anything Democrats have been too willing to listen to conservatives, affording their absurd and discredited notions--trickle down economics is a perfect instance, tax cuts for the rich as a benefit to the middle class--way too much credibility.

Democratic candidates have won the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections. The number of votes cast for Democratic senators is vastly more than those cast for Republicans (and yet the Senate is split 50 50). And this has happened despite GOP efforts to suppress voter turnout the likes of which we haven't seen since passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

I endorse the slogan "Republicans are why we can't have nice things." Such as a democracy that works in the interest of the vast majority of its citizens.

Seriously, I doubt the party of Clinton, Gore, Obama, Biden, Harris, Warren et. al would ever allow itself to fall into a "positive feedback loop" such as the GOP has been in now for decades. But if that's the risk of having enough political power to turn this country away from self immolation, it's a risk I'd be willing to take.