Quote (thundercock @ Nov 22 2020 04:29pm)
I don't think I would characterize it like that. I agree that there's a moderate/radical divide in the Democratic party but I don't think it's that simple. The Congressional Black Caucus, for example, are extremely establishment but I certainly wouldn't describe them as corporatist. There are some extremely liberal Democrats who are also establishment so I think it's more of a spectrum in terms of ideology. It seems to me that there's a small, insurgent portion of the Democratic party but I don't think the divide is as deep as people make it out to be.
The GOP is a very odd coalition at the moment and seem to only work well as an opposition party. They don't really have any ideas for the problems we face. I'd really only trust the GOP establishment on foreign policy.
There isn't a very deep divide in the Democrat party because the "insurgents" are only like a dozen elected members. The establishment of the Democratic party is pretty well established as corporatist. Even if that isn't their goal, the fundamental thing that drives the Democratic establishment is fund raising and continuing the bureaucracy and party leadership, so they end up being super corporatist.
The GOP works well as an opposition party I guess, but not really as a functional one. They're not constructive, they just give blanket "NO", which is definitely opposition but not really good opposition?
This post was edited by Thor123422 on Nov 22 2020 05:18pm