The Vorlon
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Political Matrix
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« on: August 13, 2011, 09:26:36 AM » |
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« edited: August 13, 2011, 02:58:06 PM by Does anybody else miss Bill Clinton? »
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There are a couple factors.
The first is the gerrymandering that goes on in districts - each party has about 150-175 seats in the House of Representatives that have been so gerrymandered they are just about nuclear blast proof. Because of this, no matter how extreme, the Democrat or Republican nominee is almost guaranteed to win in the General election - So the GOP tacks hard right, the Dem whack-job left to pander to the special interests that own the respective parties.
Once they get to Washington, because each party has 150-175 safe seats, the fringes of the party are guaranteed to be a majority in their own caucus. Pelosi led the Dems to the worst electoral butt-kicking in 4 generations and is the most hated national political figure in the nation..... Her reward? - Being re-elected by her caucus again as leader! - Why? - If you're a dem from a safe seat in Harlem or San Fran, hey, Pelosi is your kind of leader - to heck with middle America, the crazier the better!
Both parties have just about completed the political equivalent of the "ethnic cleansing " process and have achieved political purity.
The senate is a little better (you can't gerrymander a state) and there are (perhaps) a dozen moderates left in the senate, but the House is, well, a disaster of groupthink ideological purity.
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