re: One party system

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We have had a plutocracy for a long time. It's cool common folks on the right are starting to realize that though.

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yes.

There is no "uniparty," however both parties are happily dependent on the Corporate Donor Class to fund campaigns, and provide sweet executive or lobbying jobs when they leave office, which means they serve their interests. That really culminated with Bill Clinton and his cadre, the "Watergate Babies" who shifted Democrat focus from backing Labor Unions and fighting Corporate power and Monopolies, which had long defined the Democratic Party, to embracing Corporate Power and focusing on liberalizing society (they were mostly College kids, like Republicans, so the populist economics wasn't part of their mind set).

What that has left to differentiate the two is "the culture wars," which splits the middle-class of the country roughly down the middle into "Liberals" and "Conservatives." It's a sham... if Roe vs. Wade were overturned what would single-issue voters have to bother with? That's why it is the banana eternally held in front of the treadmill. There were actually Conservative writers freaking out about here and there when RBG died. It also has an insincere origin, since the Religious Right turned to a Pro-Life message in the late '70s after its initial attempts to get Ronald Reagan the nomination failed to inspire non-political Evangelicals... and the motivating factor was actually Bob Jones University being made to racially integrate it's student body.

And here we are...