Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

[CaptainHenreh]

I hope the whole GOP does down in flames.

Something that has only recently occurred to me is that the parties as we see them aren't really parties. They're more coalitions under a singular banner, which is why "The GOP" (and "the DNC") often appears to act so incongruously.

I'd love to see the "Grand Old Party" catch fire and burn to ashes and the DNC eat itself and have a handful of parties take their place. It'd probably still fall along left/right lines for votes, but who you were voting for individually would be far more transparent and individual politicians wouldn't be so beholden to "party loyalty" as they are now. Pelosi could say that she outright thought AOC was out of her mind, because AOC would be a member of the Democratic Socialists while Pelosi would be a Progressive...they'd be in the same coalition, but different parties.

Won't happen, of course. The GOP is going nowhere, and neither is the DNC. We've been stuck with them for almost 100 years and it isn't likely to change without, I dunno, nukes flying or something.

But then, India and Pakistan are waving their dicks at each other pretty vigorously so there's hope yet!