A house divided against itself, cannot stand. I believe this country cannot endure permanently half liberal and half conservative. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
There are, but in the US the only two ideologies with any establishment or infrastructure are (neo) liberalism and the modern conception of conservativism. There is no third ideology that is in a position to compete for supremacy with the other two. For right now, at least, it is a strict, zero sum, winner-take-all competition between liberalism and conservatism.
A house divided against itself, cannot stand. I believe this country cannot endure permanently half liberal and half conservative. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
There are plenty more possibilities than all “liberal” or “conservative”. Always have been.
There are, but in the US the only two ideologies with any establishment or infrastructure are (neo) liberalism and the modern conception of conservativism. There is no third ideology that is in a position to compete for supremacy with the other two. For right now, at least, it is a strict, zero sum, winner-take-all competition between liberalism and conservatism.