Am I the only one who thinks if the Democratic party couldn’t win this election it’s time for them to go the way of the Whigs? It seems obvious to me that this party has become a liability to this country and if they cared about it they would get out of the way and let a new party step up.
Not so much just getting rid of the Democratic Party, but the whole 2 party system, “we vs. they” bollocks that just pits Americans against each other instead of representing our interests.
But a presidential election isn’t the time to build new viable political parties.
That needs to happen at the county and state level before it crosses state lines and goes national.
But it would take extraordinary courage and resources to break with such long standing institutions as the two major parties.
With corporations and increasingly wealthy oligarchs in control of broadcast, cable and social media, I don’t know how any meaningful movement could maintain both viability and independence, even if it had a strong start.
Remember so many movements like the Greens, the Reform, and the Coffee parties that just petered out to nothing or were absorbed or subsumed as tools by the major parties.