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Well, in my opinion, it would require a truly earth splitting issue for enough Republican and Democrat voters to switch to a third party to win an election. In Lincoln's day, it was slavery. There is no issue today that is so large and controversial that would cause the people to lose faith in the existing two party political structure. Not that such issue might not come up someday. Abortion? Gun control? Drugs? Free Speech? Corruption? Taxation? Economy? Immigration? Foreign policy? All of these issues ebb and flow depending on the party or people in power. The one thing that marches on is ever-expanding federal government and its resulting loss of our individual freedoms. Perhaps one day people will say enough is enough, but I do not see it happening anytime soon.

One of the problems we face is that government is so intrusive into our lives in so many aspects that we cannot choose a single issue to bolt a party over no matter how strongly we may feel it. They have us surrounded.

I bet I know what the issue will be, and if I am right I figure that means we are about 25 years from the next great upheaval.

Reparations.

It isn't being taken seriously enough now to cause such a rift, but there are the usual suspects trying to get it there. Unless there is a marked breakthrough in things, I would imagine that in a quarter century or so, they will have the idea pushed enough that it will be actually being considered.

And that is when the trouble begins...

Just my guess