Election Reunion Thread for Old Timers Lurking

[Smitty-48]

Republicans have more fun

it's just more fun being a Republican

the party is terrified of you, they are scared to even annoy you

the Democrats is the sad loser party, even when they win

because the party has total contempt for its own base, and they're not scared of them

[Smitty-48]

like if the GOP base decides they want Bernie Sanders to be the candidate,

then that is what will happen

the party would be more scared of its base than of communism itself

[Smitty-48]

otherwise known as ; Democrats are from Venus, Republicans are from Mars

[Smitty-48]

I can actually see it now

a scenario where the Democrats lose the black vote back to the Republicans

not in the near future

but I can see a future where that happens

simply because the Republicans become the lesser of two evils again,

after decades of Democrat race hustling to nowhere

[Smitty-48]

if you don't switch to the GOP, you are invisible, you don't exist

only the Republican base can put the fear of God into the politicians

join us, or cease to exist for all intents and purposes

[Smitty-48]

that's how I explain it to my Canadian wife

she's knows I find Trump more amusing than anything, like a comedy show

but why are you a Republican ?

because, honey, Democrats don't exist, since nobody is scared of them

it's not even that she can't get with the right, she votes Conservative in Canada

Republicans just scare her, she's afraid of them

to which I say, exactly, see how that works ?

chaos is a ladder

[Smitty-48]

that's why Canada is the way it is

it's like America, without Republicans

all the parties are the Democrats

so the politicians run amok, because they have nothing to fear

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

You talk like this is a potential future for the GOP.

They are already the anti-market, populist party of identity-based grievance. The GOP is the party of dedicated collectivists and suspicion of markets and capital.

[Smitty-48]

it does have some advantages over America, for older married property owners like us

because it is more stable, there's less upheaval, it's predictable, when there is no real opposition

but it's like a soft Soviet Union, because you are not actually free to tell the technocrats what to do

in Canada, you are just a passenger, although it is a luxury ride, if you have money

[Smitty-48]

You talk like this is a potential future for the GOP.

well at some point the future is anarchy

at some point it will explode and Americans will try to overthrow the corporate fascist hegenomy

but it won't be the Democrats doing that

this corporate fascist era, only ends, when Republicans decide to end it

just like 1861