• AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social
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    8 months ago

    Let’s say that the ship is actually sinking, for arguments sake.

    There’s a whole bevy of rats swelling out of those fetid waters, the smart ones jumped ship some time ago, given that there are only two viable options in the United States, where do you suppose that they will go?

    How will that affect composition and policy of those that remain as The SS Trump slips below the murky waters?

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

      given that there are only two viable options in the United States, where do you suppose that they will go?

      To whatever right wing party replaces the GOP.

      There’s nothing magical about Democrats or the GOP, there’s nothing that requires they be the two parties. But FPTP always collapses into a two party system. Rarely a third party gets some power, it and it’s closest of the main parties lose several elections to stealing each other’s votes, and eventually one of them absorbs the other, often with some policy adjustments.

      So presuming this kills the GOP as we know it, either another right wing party emerges and absorbs whatever is left of the GOP or the GOP adjusts and reabsorbs the fleeing rats, making some adjustments to make them willing to stay.