Who will be the next major party to go the way of American Whigs?

[yurbud]

Poll question: Who will be the next major party to go the way of American Whigs?

If you asked me even two years ago, I would have confidently said the GOP without hesitation because demographics are against them: racist whites are a shrinking constituency, and the GOP can't reach out to other groups without losing them. Their voter base is a pair of cement shoes, and all the money of the trust fund babies they actually serve can't buy enough votes (or voting machines) to stop those cement shoes from taking them down to a nap with the fishes.


But as the corporate DLC wing of the Democratic Party does its best to co-opt key GOP initiatives, down to borrowing their K-12 education policy so completely that conservative columnists praise them for it, I'm wondering if the Democratic Party isn't a dark horse that will pull from behind and beat the GOP to the graveyard of history, not because they have no one to vote for them, but because they take those voters so for granted that they separate from the DLC wing, and like the Republicans did at their birth with slavery, find some big issue that existing parties dither on, seize that ground for their own, and draw substantially from one or both parties.

But I'm not sure which party will make it to the graveyard first. Your thoughts?

[blindpig]

1. Flip a coin

it's a demolition derby.

[Javaman]

2. the repukes already have, they just kept the name.

as for the dems, unless some sort of cosmic mircle happens and Obama suddenly stands up and fights, I suspect a strong democratic type party to roll around in 2016.

2012? nothing strong, just a splinter progressive group. Which, as the way things are going, I will probably be a party of.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Hopefullly, both. And, then we could give democracy a try.