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Jan 14, 2022·edited Jan 14, 2022

My own crackpot theory also involves the destruction of the Democrats, because too much of the power of Republicans comes from being anti-Democrats, and too much of the inaction of the Democrats comes from knowing they're the only alternative to Republicans. If you split the Democrats into Neoliberals, Progressives, Socialists, Environmentalists, etc, then you get factions that are harder to hate as a whole (they stop all being sexually ambiguous socialist coastal elites that want to take away your guns to murder unborn babies), and whichever party doesn't play ball is easier to work around.

As I said, crackpot theory, but that's politics in healthier democracies.

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