So where will the Marxist part of America move next?
Governing is about exercising power. Political parties are about appropriating that power to one's own purpose. The founding fathers created a government containing many checks and balances in an effort to frustrate human tendency to consolidate power in one tyrant or, on the other hand, to concede power to the mob. Political parties in America are designed to overcome the checks and balances put by the framers into the Constitution.
The peculiar architecture of the American federal system with its bicameral legislatures, tripartite "coequal" branches of government, staggered elections for various branches, Constitutional limitations of government power especially freedom of the press and speech, are designed to make government impotent in the absence of a general consensus. The purpose of political parties is to provide that consensus for its constituents' point of view, to provide a consensus about how power should be wielded across the various competing entities of government.
The American federal political system with its checks and balances means that it functions properly as a two-party system. Any successful attempt to form a third political party invariably condemns the political party from which it shoots off and to which it is most closely ideologically aligned to oblivion. Since it is human nature to entertain incessant arguments over the proper application of political power, political parties in America have developed a survival mechanism, they co-opt the principle grievances of the splinter group and make the dissidents' platform their own. This has been the history of political parties in America since the beginning. When a new ideology becomes popular, one party or the other seeks to absorb it.
If the party misjudges the public mood and embraces a splinter ideology in an effort to co-opt when that ideology is too radical to be palatable to the general public, the party loses the next election because it moves out of the mainstream. If the party misjudges the other way and declines to co-opt a movement which happens to be of sufficient strength, the party loses the next election because it has fractured its base. If a party attempts to absorb views of the other party, or approaching that of the other party, it risks losing the next election by alienating its own base. If it fails to absorb views approaching the ideology of the other party, it risks losing the next election by isolating itself to its own base.
Political parties are eternally faced with the same dilemma: should the party dilute its core message to attract less ideologically motivated voters or should it confine itself to a pure message and energize its core constituents? In attempting to solve these tensions, political parties are like amoebas or yeasts, everlastingly dividing or growing.
Our recent history since 2016 illustrates the principle of absorption by a political party of a constituent group. Donald Trump recognized that an entire class, are blue-collar middle-class, have been worse than neglected, they had been actually exploited by both parties and the administrative state. So Trump led the Republican Party in absorbing this voting block.
The Democrats on the other hand, broadly but not inaccurately, can be characterized as a top and bottom party, that is, the party of the very rich, the elitists at one end of the economic, cultural and intellectual spectrum, and the other end of the spectrum in the inner cities, mostly black and intellectually subservient to the elites who provide them with economic benefits out of the federal treasury (or, equally, out of the treasuries capacity to borrow). The Democrats did not seek to absorb as political historian might have predicted, the blue-collar working class, simply because the elite Strada of the party had been utterly captured by the concept of climate change and because of "elite capture", of which more later.
The elite Strada of the Democrat party co-opted most of American institutions that shape the electorate on its behalf: the media, entertainment, and academia down through kindergarten which by a remarkable and clever application of these institutions garnered enough of the suburban females vote to carry the day for Democrats on the national level and for many state elections. This combination persisted successfully until it is confronted by economic and social dislocations which now rupture that combination which make up the vote winning Democrat party.
As the United States and the world move into increasingly grave economic conditions, the interests of the lower working class and those of the unalterably focused elites to anti-energy policies cannot be papered over much less reconciled.
Either the Democrat party will move to absorb the disenfranchised middle-class by advancing its populist interests thus alienating its elites or it will fail to do so and badly lose upcoming elections.
Perhaps even a more challenging absorption problem presents itself to both parties. The challenges posed by the fact that the Chinese Communist Party has subverted and compromised by a process styled "elite capture" every vital American institution, including both political parties, to the point that our ability to self govern as well as our national security are imperiled.
Only one party, the Republican Party, has addressed this problem, however inadequately. The difficulty for the parties is that the Chinese control the institutions that provide the money which is the mother's milk of politics. Until this problem is solved, the capacity of either political party to address the needs of the working middle-class, to undertake prudent national security measures or purge themselves and our deep state of corruption simply cannot prevail.
Since the Democrats are more dependent on Chinese largess as a funding source for campaigns and even for personal grifting, that party is unlikely to take the steps necessary to purge itself of Chinese influence. The Republicans, on the other hand, are marginally better positioned to act as Patriots.
So the real test for the future of representative government in America is will either party purge itself of the "elite capture" that dominates so much and determines our future? This is a problem for both parties that cannot be ignored because the needs of the middle class cannot be addressed without breaking rice bowls that have funded this elite capture that is crippling America. Eventually, one party or the other will be forced to righteousness or the country will succumb.
