Baraka_Guru

All of this is interesting, but I'm wondering: If the two-party system fractures, will there ever be any real left representation in America?

Let's face it, the Democratic Party is more centre than it is left-centre. And it's no left.

That right parties consider it too far left and left parties consider it too far right is indicative of its centredness.

It's hard to say.

It all depends on whether the government in its current state already adequately represents the political anatomy of the nation. However, considering how centre and right the government has been and for so long, I doubt this is the case. I doubt the American people today are as conservative as their governmental history. I think there are probably many American left-thinking people that are grossly underrepresented if not unrepresented completely.

With that in mind, it's almost silly to me to think that the Republicans are going through a crisis where some think the party isn't right enough.

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