A growing number of lawmakers are choosing to retire because they feel it’s impossible to get anything done.
Maybe that's not a bad thing.
It is. The people leaving are the ones who know that they'll have a fight with the heavy hitting MAGoos. Think of it this way. You've got a local police department. The older cops came in wanting to be Joe Friday or Dick Tracy. They are leaving because the younger cops all want to be the Punisher and Dirty Harry. A lot of the GOPs voted with the Dems to keep the government operating, the next crop of GOPs will be more like Lauren B. and less likely to listen to sense.
If it leads to more empty seat elections it might be a good thing, it's easier to flip an empty seat then an incumbent.
Thanks to gerrymandering, those seats will always be R. The choice is between a sane person and a MAGoo.
I'd say it is a bad thing.
The Old Guard were shitbags for sure, but they were at least predictable shitbags that wouldn't rock the boat too far. When they retire and leave a super juicy incumbent office open, they always seem to get replaced with ever-more radicalized fresh blood that have zero qualms about driving a 50cal sniper bullet straight through all civil liberties.
I think what we've been seeing since 2022 is that there is a line that was crossed that energized young adults to actually vote. Historically, this is the demographic that doesn't vote. The GOP have been losing in state and federal elections because of it.
I personally believe that if we see more hardline far-right GOP fill seats, they will fill less and less seats. The GOP will then have to split into two basically to survive. Then, I'd imagine, we'd see the far-right die off.
We saw something similar, though more minor and swifter when this happened when the GOP started to split into the 'Tea Party'. This would probably be a bigger culling that will last a lot longer.
If it doesn't happen that way, the GOP just won't survive as a major party.
In the US, registered voters for the DNC only account for 27% exactly the same for the RNC at 27% with the remaining 45% as registered Independent. This is in contrast to 2004 where only 27% of the registered voters were Independent. Source (Gallup).
At the best outcome, hopefully, this will introduce other parties that will also be considered 'major' parties and have a chance on ballots all over the country. This could be a catalyst for real change in the US, if the GOP can't get it's shit together.
Do clown cars drive on rails?
I just finished Metro Last Light, so in a dystopian future, I'm gonna go with "yes."
An alliance of corporate raiders, religious nutjobs, and nazis, aka the Reagan coalition, was never built on firm foundations. The laissez faire ultracapitalists like Romney just want tax cuts and deregulation so they can siphon even more capital out of the system, and to that end they pay lip service to the causes of the unwashed masses. They ran the GOP for decades.
Now, the nazis and religious nutjobs, who outnumber the true Reaganites by several orders of magnitude among the electorate, have decided to take the wheel. Trump and his followers are the GOP's golem.
Jesus, put on this makeup and round red nose, and take the wheel
It's only news when GOP members say something sensible.
I'm great with this.
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