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2020 Democratic Party Presidential Primaries Thread

Anyone else noticing the overall common thread among the various American political factions now days?
They all revolve around personalities, and they're all radicalized by it.
Even the above noted "Obama Republicans," when voting in 2016, voted against Hillary Clinton (whilst simultaneously supporting the ascendant personality cult of Trump).
 
Anyone else noticing the overall common thread among the various American political factions now days?
They all revolve around personalities, and they're all radicalized by it.
Even the above noted "Obama Republicans," when voting in 2016, voted against Hillary Clinton (whilst simultaneously supporting the ascendant personality cult of Trump).
That depends on the party... and so far the Dems have only had it in the fringes and everyone else wants it either kept that way or eliminated. The GOP however... well... it has a history of having personalities taking over and dominating it since the faction swap back in the '60s when the Dixies started moving in (and the party started pushing the Rockefeller Republicans out).


If anything, it might suggest that the current coalitions weren't stable to begin with, given US political history shows us that this sort of thing tends to happen when coalitions became too unstable to function.
 
That depends on the party... and so far the Dems have only had it in the fringes and everyone else wants it either kept that way or eliminated.
I guess if you consider the Obama coalition "fringe"
 
The Obama coalition had fringe elements, but it isn't cored around Obama.
All of American politics is cored around individual personalities. Why do you think we prefer to have a powerful executive position revolving around having the head of state and head of government be the literal same exact person?

Granted, its been that way since it was established, but our inability to try something different for a change has metastasized. Think it hasn't? -gestures broadly around-
 
All of American politics is cored around individual personalities. Why do you think we prefer to have a powerful executive position revolving around having the head of state and head of government be the literal same exact person?

Granted, its been that way since it was established, but our inability to try something different for a change has metastasized. Think it hasn't? -gestures broadly around-
It only got as powerful as it did because Congress won't govern, that's why. For quite some time Congress had the most power but as Congress stopped governing more and more, the Executive picked up the slack.
 
It only got as powerful as it did because Congress won't govern, that's why. For quite some time Congress had the most power but as Congress stopped governing more and more, the Executive picked up the slack.
So Trump's just "picking up the slack", K. Whatever you say...

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So Trump's just "picking up the slack", K. Whatever you say...

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Wow, twisting my words into something unrecognizable. If you actually look at it historically, the Executive got power because the Legislative kept giving up power and this is over a time period of decades/a century and change.
 
People are seriously debating whether Trump will dissolve the Democratic Party, and whether Sanders supporters would go along with it? Are you out of your fucking minds? You're all a bunch of lunatics.
 
People are seriously debating whether Trump will dissolve the Democratic Party, and whether Sanders supporters would go along with it? Are you out of your fucking minds? You're all a bunch of lunatics.

We like to make our villains out as despicable and powerful.
 
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