annatar1914 wrote:Trump has his own dynamic, which is difficult for me to describe in one post. I've been most emphatic for years now that he absolutely is not what his persona suggests in public. His voters (not necessarily ''Conservatives'' although there is an overlap) too are not what the Liberals try to paint them as-the Liberals simply do not understand over half the very country they live in, at all, and it will cost them dearly in many ways.
Dedicated voters will vote no matter what. This is the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party as we've known it, and the GOP Establishment as well; wealthy, corrupt and gerontocratic, their time is almost over. Even Trump is but a transitional figure; an Ayn Randian Objectivist type posing as an ''Andrew Jackson'' Populist.
A multi-party system in America would certainly help I think; ideologues would get their political purity, while they'd also be forced to coalition build with people whose ideas they didn't necessarily like, while voters would feel represented better.
I've suggested before a recall of representatives system, with delegates legally bound and mandated to vote exactly as their voters want them to, and those in violation could possibly be replaced automatically via a recall petition if the majority of their voters disagreed with their decisions.
Trump is most certainly not an Objectivist*, nor does he hew to any other recognizable ideological principle. He is, if anything, a solipsist, whose every external action is only justifiable insofar as it props up his internal reality. In practice, this simply means he runs an ongoing con designed to put money in his pocket. He's taken the traditional GOP exhortation to run government
like a business, and carried it a step further: he run's government
as his own personal business.
The existing government and Party structures aren't being superceded. This is a comforting illusion propagated to convince you that real structural change is finally at hand. These party structures are merely the tools the the oligarchy currently employ. As they lose their effectiveness, they will ultimately place troops in the street and abandon the pretense of representative democracy.
So, to put it mildly, a multiparty system won't be tolerated. Even accurately counting votes is now a defunct concept belonging to some distant past. Controlling two parties is a complex affair - no way will extra parties be permitted.
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*This is not to say that Objectivists (and others) haven't seized on Trump as an avatar. It simply means they won't get what they expect.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. -Antonio Gramsci