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Events change things. I’m not too worried about the current state of affairs in large part because I think it is part of a realignment of political forces sorting itself out and it will settle into new groups or shifted alliances.
The turbulence we are seeing is, in my mind, the shifting alliances bumping into each other as they cross paths — the performance art by the politicians is like the bird of paradise courtship dance from Planet Earth designed to attract some new class of voter and get attention.
This stuff will sort itself out. I am actually increasingly convinced I’ll be mostly on the outside of any of the factions looking in while mostly aligned with the GOP. I’m not sure there is a pro-life, mostly Christian, small government party anymore.
We’ve got two big government parties and the Democrats are actually increasingly the corporatist party and the GOP rapidly becoming the party of the blue collar, culturally conservative voter.
I suspect in the next decade the Democrats will be more aligned with the Chamber of Commerce than the GOP, despite the siren call of socialism within that party. Actually, socialism and corporatism can get along just fine — way better than socialism and small business get along.
Frankly, if the GOP does more to focus on Main Street and social conservatism across ethnic/racial lines, that’d be a good thing. As the Democrats get richer, whiter, and even more secular, a lot of minority voters will want a new home.
Both parties, however, are causing our national financial situation to morph into a national security issue. We bankrupted the Soviet Union and now China would love to bankrupt us. Both parties are helping it.
