Will Moderates of any stripe, have a political home in the future?

[Aristotelian]

Peacetrain (11,819 posts)

Will Moderates of any stripe, have a political home in the future?

I have been thinking about this quite a bit lately. The Republican Party has spent the last 28-30 years pushing all of its moderate members out of the party. Will the Democratic Party emulate that policy and try and push all of its moderates out.

If that happens will the moderates of both parties then form a third party?

I know the common thought is that the moderates of the Republican Party would move over to the Democratic Party. But I wonder if they would, or could for that matter.

Fifteen years from now, I can only imagine what the political playing field will look like.

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Deep13 (37,810 posts)
1. Democrats are the moderates.

We have no left party in this country. No one in power favors nationalized health care and no one in power has even suggested nationalizing the oil, gas, and coal industries, or the banks. No one anywhere has suggested that since productivity is doing well, then the reason so many are still poor is because we have outgrown a work-based distribution of resources. No one is critical of Israel. No one is willing to admit that Iran has damned good reason not to trust the USA.

Yes, democrats are the moderate ones already...it's not like that have any extremist policies...

truebluegreen (2,589 posts)
4. Current Democrats--in leadership--are not the middle of their party,

they are the right wing of it.

And 3 or 4 viable parties will never happen in an electoral college "winner take all" system.

So, Pres. Obama is in the right-wing of the moderate party? 

Rosa Luxemburg (22,514 posts)
15. There would have to be PR

If there was proportional representation it might work.

Absolutely - the Italian experience of 61 governments in the first 48 years of the republic is such a good example to be emulated. 

[JohnnyReb]

Will Moderates of any stripe, have a political home in the future?.... I hope the hell not.

Great news on local TV last night....Lindsey Graham (R senator from SC) will be opposed in the next republican primary by a conservative woman. She is the first female graduate of The Citadel. That's all I know about her from the TV news.....and it's enough for me to vote for her.

[USA4ME]

Deep13

Democrats are the moderates.

If that's true then let's just cash it in now, the country's not worth saving.

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[Carl]

I guess O reading Marx in private rather then quoting him verbatim in speeches makes him a moderate at the DUmp.

[obumazombie]

"I will spew the tepid from my mouth". I understand "tepid" to be moderate.

"Moderation in the protection of liberty is no virtue; extremism in the defense of freedom is no vice." -Barry Goldwater-

[Airwolf]

Deep13 seems to be about as deep as pissing on a flat piece of rock.