j reacts to the importance of the historic opportunity to permanently annihilate the gop

when this election cycle started, a lot of people were talking about how trump was a clown but he could maybe break open the two-party system. then, you had the bernie or bust types that argued that a trump presidency may be preferable because it will create a bigger backlash, and a part of me agrees, but then what? another democrat?

how do we break this cycle?

the way the election has unfolded suggests that this may be the last election with a serious republican candidate. clinton is poaching the brains out of the republicans. all that's left is koch money, and it will be gone in eight years due to natural causes. the next election could feature the democrats as the conservative party on the right, with a sanders-inspired liberal party challenger. greens? somebody else? i don't know.

i think the tactic ought to be to worry less about who is the lesser of two evils (they're both flat out satanic) and focus more on taking the opportunity to help destroy the republican party.

if the democrats can pull off a full sweep in addition to their poaching of the intelligentsia, the republican party will be left without any hope of a future and the left can transcend the fear-mongering.

that's going to require a bit of a social movement. the seeds of this exist. you don't have to support clinton to attack trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSDm62Hmbf4