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US Political Parties are Gnarly Coalitions–This Means They Can Be Rebuilt
A pretty amazing new study from Pew Research shows that the parties are fragile coalitions, full of very deep disagreement. This fragility means many very interesting things could happen in the future… and that your stereotypes of each party may not make sense.
How US Political Parties Could Change: Pt II, Demographics
The Millennial picture wasn’t looking very good for the Republican party as we know it. They’re much less socially conservative than their older counterparts, and more inclined to support folks like Bernie Sanders and Gary Johnson than guys like Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.
But people can change: the Baby Boomers used to be represented by pinkos and hippies. Then look what happened.
But demographic change has a much more sturdy kind of impact, and it’s gonna be yuge.
How US Political Parties Could Change: Pt I, Millennials
So those of us who are not quite old are used to a historically steady kind of Democratic and Republican party. Obama isn’t all that different from LBJ; Bush wasn’t all that different from Nixon.
Could this change? Well, maybe. There’s a lot of different ways it could go.
Methinks the Other Party Thinks You’re an Idiot
A friend started a conversation with me about the Vox article “The Smug Style in American Liberalism“, but he thought “smug” applied pretty well to both edges of the political spectrum. I thought about it and I think he may be right.
A History of Conventions and Wedging
There has been much rigamarole about the convention process being fairly undemocratic. Many stories have popped up of Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz slurping up delegates even as they didn’t win the popular vote of a given state. The practice brings to mind the image of fat deal-makers sitting about in a smoke-filled room, deciding who the nominee will be. A reader asked whether it was the democratization of primaries that actually lead to greater political polarization.
The Parties Who Cried Wolf
Perhaps you’re worried about one or more of the serious candidates in this election. There’s certainly more press than normal–even from sources not so known for exaggeration–that this election has dangerous choices. Why are such warnings falling on deaf ears?
Why Can’t US Parties Stop Voters from Fleeing?
US voters identifying as Independents recently hit a record of 43%: this trend has been growing quickly and steadily since 2008, at the cost of both Republican and Democratic voters.
One might assume that this means more Americans are identifying as moderate rather than liberal or conservative, but it’s not true. What’s going on out there?