• Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Agreed that the entrenched duopoly is no accident, but we also don’t have a Federalist party anymore either. The popular support eroded beneath them due to poor policy choices/outcomes, and that faction was politically homeless for years, and decades before they formed a new and coherent party structure with longevity. Which itself was enabled by the patronage and spoils that soured voters on the Jeffersonian-Democrats.

    Adapt or die, it’s no different in biology or politics

    • Ech@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      To be clear, I’m not saying it can’t happen (and it seems like it will eventually), but nobody in either half is surviving that split, and they know it. They’re stuck with each other as they careen off this cliff.