U.S. Multiparty system from Global Paradigms

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From a blog by some Cato Institute guy:

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Isn't Steve Sailer a renowned racist?

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I prefer evilmexicandictator's 2004 scenario myself.  This Global Paradigms one smacks of ivory tower wonk detachedness from reality.  Who's a Jacksonian nowadays?  What the hell is a Buchanan Catholic?

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Anyone think that the "Crazy Election Scenario" maps out five possible parties pretty well?

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I agree that the Centrist Party and Liberty Party are too similar, and the latter is probably not enough for the libertarians.  However, we are seeing a fracture in the GOP right in which we may soon see a Christian Democratic faction emerge, either transforming the GOP or carving out its own party.  And thus a CDP and a Conservative party could exist simultaneously, whereas the latter party relies on economic conservatives who disdain the libertarians, and the former relies on social conservatives who disdain the fiscal conservatives.  And somehow foreign policy would squeeze in somewhere.

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One can speculate.

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It certainly is unlikely in that it states that the Dems are turning rightwards in terms of economics.   Mostly it's typical DailyKos anti-Clinton thought than anything.  Though it does make a good point in bringing up that recently the rich and the corporate have been backing the Dems over the GOP.  But maybe they're just from businesses who haven't been benefiting from the Bush administration.  I guess corporations are only for crony capitalism if they're the cronies.

I do think that the Reagan coalition is going to fall apart soon.  And that both party coalitions are going to mutate.  I mean, before Reagan, the Religious Right wasn't a big part of party politics as a faction, were they?  Who knows what other factions will arise in the future.