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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Centrism
 
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Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000

asdf32 posted:

Consistently "arriving" in the center requires a desire to do so. It's not automatically emergent from the rules of the system and requires a culture (and a voting public) that allows or encourages it.

The republican unwillingness to accept Obama's supreme court nominee is a perfect example of what it looks like when the governing "centrist" culture deteriorates. It takes more than the consitution and the laws to make the system work.
That's not really a problem with theory of governance or anything, but more a problem with a significant portion of the population and the people that represent them basically being fed up with the Constitution. They will, for now, govern according to what it lets them get away with, but they will not govern according to the spirit of the document (this is largely true of Democrats as well). You look at what the Constitution says there and what actually happened and the only conclusion to be had is that it represents a serious and probably unrecoverable injury to the legitimacy of one branch of government (the SCOTUS), which unlike the other two up to this point has remained pretty solid. What they did to the judiciary is probably going to be remembered as worse than what Nixon did to the Presidency.

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Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000

Arglebargle III posted:

Bring back the guillotine IMO.
This is basically what's going to happen, and I am not keen to find out what a Reign of Terror in 21st century America looks like. Nobody's situation is going to improve under the GOP and Trump, and the Democrats aren't prepared to offer an actual alternative. Even if they win in 2018 and 2020, it's going to be off the back of doing a better job of selling Centrism (see: everything Nancy Pelosi has said since the election) and that's just going to piss everyone off again. Democrats are incapable of learning and Republicans are incapable of changing. We're hosed.

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