• WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    The two party system can collapse. It has several times before. What needs to happen is for the Democratic Party to go the way of the Whigs.

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      15 hours ago

      With the Whigs, there was a total realignment of politics based on the single issue of slavery, which led to immediate civil war. That doesn’t seem like it really contradicts my point.