GOP
and
increasingly what we're seeing
is the Republican Party ceasing to be a
functioning National Party
and increasingly becoming a a regional
party
by the way the it looks like there might
be 15 or 20 pro-trump protesters at the
Miami Courthouse uh you know we'll this
is just from the shots that I've seen
maybe maybe 30 I don't know what was it
200 in New York like I said this is not
a big deal any other Republican party it
is
increasingly becoming a regional party
and the Democratic party is increasingly
becoming a national party now why would
that be
well first of all the the Republican
party has I mean obviously there are
some factors like rural urban
that you know states that are very very
rural tend to be more Republican states
that are very Urban tend to be more
democratic
um you know Oklahoma versus or Wyoming
versus New Jersey or New York
although New York has a lot of rural
areas but
I think there's more to it than this I I
think that the reason why the Republican
party has been shrinking and it has been
shrinking
is because they are basically offering
the American public nothing more than
nothing other than hate resentment fear
Grudge grievance uh victimhood
I mean if you watch Fox News and it's
just like non-stop oh we're the victims
of this no were the victims of that no
they you know it's it's it's kind of
pathetic
but there's a real problem associated
with this there's a much larger issue
here
and that is that
without two healthy political parties
and and and I would actually say without
multiple healthy political parties but
the problem is here in the United States
we have a two-party system because we're
one of only seven democracies in the
world that has first passed the post
winner take all elections pretty much
everybody else uses parliamentary system
in a parliamentary system if a party
gets 22 percent of the vote they get 22
percent of the seats in Parliament so
you have you know multiple robust
political parties but in a first pass to
post winner take all in other words It's
All or Nothing 51 determines everything
you always end up with a two-party
system and that's what we have in the
United States and of course they're you
know the Republican party has sought to
exploit this for years and years and
years promoting for example the green
party you know Jill Stein in the 2016
election for example Republicans helping
fund that not to mention the Russians
um so
but but the bottom line is we've got
this two-party system and here's where
the problem comes as the Republican
Party gets smaller and becomes more
Regional
without having
two competitive parties
they're
there is nothing
to restrain political corruption
essentially
it is the it is the competition between
two parties that
purges both parties of political
corruption
when you have one party that just
basically rules with an Iron Fist and
has for a long long time and is never
almost never anyway successfully
challenged by the other party
that party that that that ruling party
tends to become sclerotic it tends to
become corrupt I mean we see this in act
for ex frankly we see this in both
parties you see this in the corruption
in the Democratic party in New York
state which is legendary
and you know because they haven't had a
serious Challenge from Republicans if
New York state has not been out of the
control of Democrats and forever
and you see this in
republican-controlled States like you
know Mississippi and Florida and Texas
and Alabama and I mean we could go on
Tennessee where recently you know they
expelled three members for example four
members
so three members
so it's it's not a good thing for the
country
but
it's not my job to fix the Republican
Party
apparently though you know uh the
coconut work
uh Americans for Prosperity the the you
know the group funded heavily by the
right-wing billionaires uh thinks it is
theirs they just dropped an ad this
morning
basically trashing Donald Trump
and saying that you know Donald Trump is
a loser and and you know we need to move
on in fact they literally use that
phrase you'll recall moveon.org dates
its Genesis back to I believe it was
1997.
when Bill Clinton was being prosecuted
or persecuted your choice for Monica
Lewinsky and they came out and said you
know it's time to move on from this
let's get back to governing the country
well this is this is this is what the
coke network is now saying uh is time to
move on I mean literally that's what it
says in their new ad
so
a couple of questions here and I'll you
know I'll put them on the table and we
can talk about it if you'd like
um
what will the consequences be for the
Republican Party itself and for the
Democratic Party
if the Republican Party continues down
this road of being a smaller and smaller
and more and more regional political
party and more corrupt I mean in
particular you see this right now for
example in Ohio
where the Republican party is just
insane so insanely corrupt that the the
Republican speaker of the house in Ohio
I believe might be the Senate leader
it's one of the other I mean it's just
up to his eyeballs and Corruption
scandals
Mike dewine gets away with an awful lot
because he just seems like a nice guy
but some really awful policies
and the corruption is terrible so number
one what does this mean for the future
of the Republican Party
the Democratic party lacking
a party that has
you know that that actually can hold
them to account I mean we saw this a
little tiny bit of this here in Oregon
where you know we had an elected
official or a Democratic elected
official who is now under federal
investigation for corruption
because the Republican party in Oregon
has just become nothing but an
obstruction party all they're doing
they're refusing to show up for the
legislative session hundreds of pieces
of legislation now are in limbo lots of
important stuff is not getting done
so where does this go how does this how
does this work out I mean we're we're
seeing these differences you know
startlingly in Mississippi a child in
Mississippi is fully 10 times more
likely to be killed with a gun than a
child living in Massachusetts
red states are embracing guns book bans
abortion bans pollution more pollution
blue states are leading the way into
pluralism
a clean energy future and rebuilding
their schools and infrastructures
everybody in Oregon votes by mail and
has for quarter century and we're one of
five states where that's the case Texas
Republicans made it very hard for
anybody to vote by mail particularly in
Houston
which is the all blue sea in Texas
a woman in California can get an
abortion basically anytime within the
constraints of the old world Roe v Wade
guidelines
a woman in Texas who tries to do this
could end up in jail or at least her
family members could she could get
stalked she can get hit with a ten
thousand dollar lawsuit
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what does this mean for the future of
America