why stop there? :)
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shhh don't let them catch on to my plan ;)
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In a ways, yes, but I don't want a 1 party government.
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The structure of our government makes a one-party system fundamentally unstable. The number of major parties at essentially every point in US history, except during transitions, has always been two.
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You can rest easy knowing that if every Republican in the country were raptured away tonight, the Blue Dogs or Democratic Socialists or some newly formed bloc would be in position to oppose the mainstream Dem party by next week.
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You understand they could see a huge collapse coming and plan on letting Dems take over so they get the blame, right? It would fall right in line with every deficit they've run up right before Dems take control, then they blame Dems.
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This might benefit the party in some abstract sense, but how does it benefit the individual people? Media darling Paul Ryan MIGHT be able to sashay back into Congress in 2020 or later but walking away from your post is a black mark on your political resume.
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Republican base doesn't care. If there is another major recession or collapse and Dems get the blame Paul Ryan could come back and be treated as the Second Coming
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Again, Paul Ryan MIGHT be an exception, but people like Charlie Dent aren't going to be treated as the second coming of anything. They'll just be forgotten and face tough primary challenges if they come back (1/2)
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Even for the likes of Ryan, quitting one of the most powerful positions in the world as a gambit is too clever by half. It COULD work, but it's insanely risky, and there's little precedent in favor of it.
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Conventional wisdom, in Washington as well as elsewhere, is that incumbency is too powerful an advantage to give up.
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Anyway, trying to predict past the next election is a sucker's game. Politicians simply don't look that far, for good reason. Show me a pol who threw a good thing away in 2015 because he thought he knew how 2018 would look, and I'll show you a pol that ain't coming back.
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