It’s the ratchet effect all over again. Republicans turn everything as far to the right as they can get away with. Then the Democrats get into power, but notice how the political pendulum never turns left. That’s because the Democrats don’t exist to fight the right, but to block movement to the left.
The 2024 election should have forever driven the point home: the Democrats would rather lose to Trump in perpetuity than make any concessions to the left, because whatever their distaste for Trump, they hate the left even more.
The United States once had genuinely democratic governance structures, however imperfect and limited, fundamentally based around decentralized and publicly accessible mass-member parties. The Democratic Party, as a small "d" democratic institution, and the Republican Party, as a small "r" republican institution, were honest in their naming and functioned within a politically, economically, governmentally, financially, and scientifically decentralized and pluralized system that had legal and regulatory variability, policy variability, an intentionally diffused and pluralized private sector, and local fiscal dominance. These parties, while far from flawless, allowed for real representation, genuinely participatory governance structures even for very serious policy matters with real participation, and a level of public accountability in political, economic, governmental, financial, and scientific decision making.
However, after WW2 a long multi decadal transformation began due to the dirty deeds of a convergence of several interests and an assortment of powerful special interest groups, and then our parties were transformed into centralized, exclusionary membership organizations. The so called Democratic Party has become a technocracy party, and the so called Republican Party became a conservative party. Neither really represents their original principles of democracy or republicanism, and they don't offer meaningful access or representation to the public. This transformation of the parties has been accompanied by a broader centralization of political, economic, and scientific decision making, which has caused the effective loss of most democratic governance structures.
ooh, I did have to stop and dig into that image for a minute! for me it looks kinda like a topo map, or a window into microscopic creatures among algae!
There is no Democratic Party. There is no Republican Party. There is only the Uniparty. Once we understand that, it all makes sense.
It’s the ratchet effect all over again. Republicans turn everything as far to the right as they can get away with. Then the Democrats get into power, but notice how the political pendulum never turns left. That’s because the Democrats don’t exist to fight the right, but to block movement to the left.
The 2024 election should have forever driven the point home: the Democrats would rather lose to Trump in perpetuity than make any concessions to the left, because whatever their distaste for Trump, they hate the left even more.
The United States once had genuinely democratic governance structures, however imperfect and limited, fundamentally based around decentralized and publicly accessible mass-member parties. The Democratic Party, as a small "d" democratic institution, and the Republican Party, as a small "r" republican institution, were honest in their naming and functioned within a politically, economically, governmentally, financially, and scientifically decentralized and pluralized system that had legal and regulatory variability, policy variability, an intentionally diffused and pluralized private sector, and local fiscal dominance. These parties, while far from flawless, allowed for real representation, genuinely participatory governance structures even for very serious policy matters with real participation, and a level of public accountability in political, economic, governmental, financial, and scientific decision making.
However, after WW2 a long multi decadal transformation began due to the dirty deeds of a convergence of several interests and an assortment of powerful special interest groups, and then our parties were transformed into centralized, exclusionary membership organizations. The so called Democratic Party has become a technocracy party, and the so called Republican Party became a conservative party. Neither really represents their original principles of democracy or republicanism, and they don't offer meaningful access or representation to the public. This transformation of the parties has been accompanied by a broader centralization of political, economic, and scientific decision making, which has caused the effective loss of most democratic governance structures.
Brilliant and essential.
ooh, I did have to stop and dig into that image for a minute! for me it looks kinda like a topo map, or a window into microscopic creatures among algae!