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DUU

(41 posts) Tue Jul 15, 2025, 07:54 AM Jul 15

Where does this end: MAD, dozens of political parties, everyone chills out, ...

What do you see the political landscape looking like in 5-10 years? Mutually assured destruction of current parties, fragmentation into many small special interest parties, unification under external threats / wars, more or less decisiveness, or something else.
What would it take to end the vitriol common today?

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Where does this end: MAD, dozens of political parties, everyone chills out, ... (Original Post) DUU Jul 15 OP

When the spending and population begin shrinking bucolic_frolic Jul 15 #1

It ends when the RW says, "too much. We jumped the shark. My bad." Torchlight Jul 15 #2

An economic catastrophe would unite many people against republicans Fiendish Thingy Jul 15 #3

bucolic_frolic

(51,517 posts)

1. When the spending and population begin shrinking

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Tue Jul 15, 2025, 07:59 AM

Jul 15

there is only one outcome: Depression. Congress and courts emasculated, executive powerless. States and especially county governments will muddle along.

The vitriol is 90% spent. It has nothing to focus on but delusional fantasies that are failing to arouse the public.

Torchlight

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2. It ends when the RW says, "too much. We jumped the shark. My bad."

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Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:01 AM

Jul 15

Fiendish Thingy

(20,091 posts)

3. An economic catastrophe would unite many people against republicans

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Tue Jul 15, 2025, 09:12 AM

Jul 15

High inflation caused by tariffs and ICE terrorism, loss of Medicaid benefits, etc.

There won’t be “dozens” of parties in congress or state legislatures, just more independents with little to no party loyalty.

There will be a push by “sensible centrists” to eschew left/right “extremism” and embrace the “Abundance Agenda”, which is a Neoliberal Trojan Horse that dismantles government regulations (like building/zoning codes, labor laws, OSHA, Environmental Impact Studies, FDA regs, etc) in the name of “making government work for the people” but actually just streamlines and enhances corporate profits.

Don’t say you weren’t warned

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