“MPs wouldn’t be able to monopolise the decision-making for four years.”. This may take a long time, but the US is continuously growing more billionaires; Purple is fine, and a lion can be the animal. And now, they’re trying to pivot away from Trump’s support of the white supremacist hate group the Proud Boys. Correction. Every candidate gets the same amount of money with which to campaign and outside organizations are required to clearly state exactly who they are when running ads for or against candidates. I, along with an ever expanding number of citizens, have grown weary of the finger pointing while the country crumbles. Look at the Tea Party, a collection of Libertarians, evangelists, isolationists and gun-nuts that have hijacked the Republican Party for their own purposes. Jason C. Grant If this is our republic, then damn it, let’s act like it. Democratic supporters cheering for Wendy Davis, a candidate for the 21st Congressional District of Texas. “Their job is not to use their own judgement”? I don’t see anything changing anytime soon. Hardly. or a progressive democrat, or a conservative democrat. Our guiding principle is to govern pragmatically according to the will of the informed centrist. Here’s my take on it from The Grand Old Party Abandonment Project (GOPAP): https://www.facebook.com/groups/298572930276564/, “But with each self-inflicted Washington crisis, notions such as an independent presidential bid, the dissolution of one or both major parties, and the rise of new political organizations seem less outrageous. Traditionally, presidential elections provide clarity on how a party sees its political future. He has the best plans of any candidate in decades. The Moderate Party has since 2006 used the slogan "the Swedish Workers' Party", a slogan formerly synonymous with the Social Democrats. immigration, the rise of China and demographics. I wish we had a moderate party! Like Republicans in 2012, Democrats assembled their own task force to try to unify their party after the crowded party primary this year. Sometimes it takes radical means to achieve moderate ends. I can’t completely explain it since I’m not one of those people, but they want or need to assign a political party to themselves, and again, there’s just too many GOPs and Democrats to conceivably make a dent with a new party within decades (We simply don’t have that time to wait). Harris’s ancestral village in India rejoices over her win. I just read this and agree with everything here. The GOP put them in on the Presidency, because of FDR. Ted Cruz has been suppressed in the open primaries by about 7% on average. West, a former Florida congressman and firebrand conservative. New battlefronts between moderate and left-wing Democrats have broken out in recent weeks over the future direction of the party even as they work closely together to … By 5:00am on Wednesday, November 4, the polls had closed already six hours earlier in New York City, and the results were in for this year’s general election.