08-19-2022, 08:35 AM
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Sarnak
Join Date: Aug 2015
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Originally Posted by Danth
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Tough one: We have a nation of perhaps 330 million-odd people with only two major political parties. Hence both of them take a *lot* of people under their respective wings, often groups with rather different goals. What the nation would look like under long-term sole management from either party depends greatly on what faction of said party happened to gain supremacy. With the republicans you could get anything from sensible Eisenhower-style management to laissez-faire subjugate the poor policy to hard-right fundies who'd institute religious theocracy if they had half a chance. On the democrat side you have everything from Truman-style moderate centrists to Great Society big government liberals to thinly-veiled authoritarian communists. Both parties are coalitions.
So who ends up achieving primacy? The moderate elements of both parties tend to be rather similar to each other and essentially reasonable for the most part, while the extremist wings are both terrible in their own ways. Give either party full control for a half century your outcomes could range just as widely from stable unified nation to totalitarian hellscape.
Danth
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fuck centrists.
A nazi wants genocide.
A leftist wants no genocide.
Centrist says why don't we compromise with some light genocide.
No, goddamnit, have a spine. |
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