The future of the two parties

[TNF]

The suggestion that the Republicans are suddenly going to be what liberals want them to be is mind-boggling. If anything, the Republican Party will become even less attractive to Internet liberals, as it's probably going down the road to become a sort of Third Positionist political outfit. As it declines in numbers, the GOP will become more, not less, extreme in its rhetoric and policy positioning. As more and more Hispanic immigrants make it to the polls and the country becomes majority-minority, the Republican Party will be more of a 'white man's party' than the vast majority of liberals can scarcely imagine. I'm talking about a party that will openly advocate closing the borders outright. This of course will likely alienate the business community from the GOP, which will continue moving towards the Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party on the other hand will morph into a weird kind of 'market social democracy' party which enacts social democratic ends by market means. Thus it'll kind of be a crony capitalist party with a lot of big friends on Wall Street that it funnels state funds as the state itself becomes a sort of middleman between corporate America and literally everyone else. We'll have universal healthcare, higher education, all that, but it'll be thoroughly corporatized; that is, we'll have them on the terms of the massive international corporations that control our politics, not on the terms of a democratic citizenry. Imagine Obamacare, but replicated on a massive scale. It won't be a traditional 20th century welfare state (because organized labor will be essentially neutralized), but rather a massive, bloated middleman state where tax dollars are shifted through various corporate organs to deliver the public a product, rather than a public service. There will still be a 'pity-charity' welfare state, but it'll be on the terms of the corporate elite that runs the country and the Democratic Party, not the public at-large. Food stamps* will still exist, as will traditional welfare, but these programs will be changed beyond recognition; Social Security will be privatized, turned into something that some parasitic Wall Street middleman can turn a profit off of, and Medicare will likewise be the same, turned into a functional extension of Obamacare by enterprising Democratic politicians.



*Food Stamps will very likely be limited in nature to promote 'healthy diets,' aka no more using food stamps to buy soda and potato chips, you must buy organic arugula or something.