I think about this a lot. Felt very much like history repeating/rhyming when listening to @mikeduncan masterfully explain the 1848 revolutions. Seems to me a fundamental issue that the status quo is one thing, but every person wanting change is ‘unhappy in their own way’
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I forget who said it, but there is an old adage that the right looks for converts and the left looks for traitors.
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You mean a white nationalist party has done a better job uniting white people than the party of everyone else has done uniting everyone else? Hmm, wonder why that would happen
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Isn't it typically easier for conservatives to unite? Many conservatives are defenders of the status quo; they agree on "No change." Liberals want change. But some libs say, "Change to A," others "Change to B," etc., and disunity can easily result.
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it's a feature of the opposition party, not the left. the GOP had all kinds of internal chaos during the Obama years
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I don't know how much truth there is to this old People's Front of Judea gag, but if true it does seem awkward for those whose economic model requires effective cooperation.
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While the electoral field is not the totality of the left (part of their problem), I'd say that the current Democratic party is a lot more united than the Republican one. In my own district, the GOP primary loser still hasn't endorsed the House candidate.
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Wishful thinking. They may get nasty with each other but when it counts they move in lock-step. Think of all the Republicans who hate trump but voted for him anyway. Think of Kavanaugh, an incredibly unpopular nominee and yet the Senate confirmed him.
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Fair point. On the other hand, I see nothing to suggest that the Democratic party in 2018 is consumed by petty fights. The same amount of GOP senators broke ranks on Kavanaugh as Dems. And Dem voters seem fired up no matter whether their favored candidate won primaries.
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There was a pretty contentious fight for DNC chair which Obama big-footed to get Tom Perez elected. We have Obama’s snubbing Ocasio-Cortez by not endorsing her. There is plenty of petty shit all around. The party is far from healing the rift that DWS opened up in 2016.
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It's because the Right consists of resent white people, while the Left is a collection of interest groups: blacks, Hispanics, feminists, gays, etc. whose interests sometimes clash and whose only real cohering force is opposition to the Right.
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The right also has a lot more weapons.
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Right and left are both broad coalitions but the right agrees on fundamentals while the left doesn't. This was very clear in Spain 36-9.
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A united Democratic Party wins the Presidency and maybe the Senate in 2016. A united left pulls Gore across the finish line in Florida in 2000. And then back in time there is the 1968 Democratic self immolation. Yep, I guess you could say the left has been it's own worst enemy
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Conservative think tanks have produced long range strategies that are flexible enough to accommodate the likes of Trump. The left appears to be as
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right wingers are authoritarians.. there are 2 kinds. the leaders the followers.. Liberals/ Dems don't have that personality type. We don't fall in line.. we think.
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Case in point: Democrats were pretty united behind Obama in 2008. The alliance between left and center-left ruptured when he inevitably had to side with one of them in exercising power. GOP could be in a similar place now to where it was in 2004-2006 when it started fracturing.
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In the US I think it’s an electoral cycle thing, not a left/right thing. Being out of power tends to forge coalitions b/c people get sick of losing elections and overlook differences to win. Being in power fractures them due to disagreement about dividing up spoils.
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The premise is ridiculously flawed: the Right in this country is ideologically unified and has already gone through its period of infighting and purity tests. There's no lesson to be drawn here. Except for madmen.
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