Quaint statement. Good political science/economics is entirely empirical/theory-based.
Not hardly. The social 'sciences' are
not nearly deterministic enough that they can be called truly empirical - it is impossible to account for the vagaries of the election cycle because of the sheer amount of random foam inherent to it. It's only empirical to the extend that trends can be generalized and extrapolated for a given period of time, but even this does not hold.
There is no practicable distinction. The present Party structure has ossified to such a degree that these institutions will probably far outlast the nation they allegedly serve.
Which is precisely why that hoping for a "collapse" of either major Party is utterly ridiculous. The Parties are structured to exist
in perpetuo; the Democrats and the Republicans
need each other, and this model affords to us a stability that simply does not exist in parliamentary governments. You're utterly mistaken if you think you can take either Party permanently out of action, or that both would collapse if one did. No, the other Party would simply enter into remission for a number of years like pancreatic cancer before resurfacing when the times called for it. This is demonstrable; it has happened before. Your fantasy has not, and almost certainly never will.
I'm now a member of the "Obama Fan Base"? Shove it up your ass, you petulant twat. Did I not say in my initial post that I am, and I quote -
You can take your populist good-ol'-boy rhetoric and violate yourself with it.
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