I'd love a smart political scientist to explain to me the politics of places like Japan, where even when there are scandals and recessions people punish the LDP by just giving it a smaller majority, not letting the opposition win.
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Or how the "Solid Democratic South" worked for generations.
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That should be the ultimate goal of Democrats. A Senate and House filled with left wing dems and moderate Dems arguing over how much they should tax the rich, not whether they should do it at all.
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But NY elects GOP mayors sometimes! If you're talking about the legislature, yeah
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The GOP has controlled the NY State Senate since 2011.
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California might be the best example due to top-2 and a lot of former r's becoming moderate dems in recent years. Plus the strange ethnic/regional politics
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That's less true than it used to be, the LDP is completely reliant on the worlds best organised religious party to keep the opposition from destroying them.
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Not really. Japan is only a democracy on paper.
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That's essentially the result of an Democratic inside fight that Cuomo won.
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