Very interesting article.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/12/24/us_on_verge_of_multi-party_system_129115.html
I love this part.
Democrats' prospects are just as bleak. Like Republicans, what unites them more than anything is a shared hatred of their political opponents.
The Democrats constitute an uncomfortable coalition of aggrieved groups. The party's support stems largely from those members of our society who hold grudges against other members of our society. Democratic leaders, from President Obama to Vice President Biden, have energized their base by stoking anger over racial and economic injustice, both real and imagined. Biden's warning in 2012 that Republicans want to put black people back in chains is just one example of the party's divisive and toxic rhetoric toward fellow Americans.
This unhappy union of the perpetually outraged cannot last. Sanders' supporters, who rail against economic injustice while sipping cappuccinos in their Ivy League dormitories, have little in common with hard-working, Catholic Hispanics and socially conservative African-Americans. Sanders' rallies are as lily white as Norway.
Both political parties have strayed far from their roots. The Republicans are turning their backs on business, and the Democrats are turning theirs on labor. No wonder so many Americans feel disenfranchised.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/12/24/us_on_verge_of_multi-party_system_129115.html
I love this part.
Democrats' prospects are just as bleak. Like Republicans, what unites them more than anything is a shared hatred of their political opponents.
The Democrats constitute an uncomfortable coalition of aggrieved groups. The party's support stems largely from those members of our society who hold grudges against other members of our society. Democratic leaders, from President Obama to Vice President Biden, have energized their base by stoking anger over racial and economic injustice, both real and imagined. Biden's warning in 2012 that Republicans want to put black people back in chains is just one example of the party's divisive and toxic rhetoric toward fellow Americans.
This unhappy union of the perpetually outraged cannot last. Sanders' supporters, who rail against economic injustice while sipping cappuccinos in their Ivy League dormitories, have little in common with hard-working, Catholic Hispanics and socially conservative African-Americans. Sanders' rallies are as lily white as Norway.
Both political parties have strayed far from their roots. The Republicans are turning their backs on business, and the Democrats are turning theirs on labor. No wonder so many Americans feel disenfranchised.
