Bernie Sanders speaks at sold out event at Seattle bar. Demotix/ Rick Barry. All rights reserved.The first Democratic Party presidential debate on CNN on Wednesday 14 October broke the Republican Party’s monopoly, not simply on presidential campaigning, but on discussion related to the 2016 elections for half of all seats in Congress.
The Republican goals are clearly to win the Presidency, and also to strengthen their majority in both houses of Congress. In the event that the Democrats should once again secure the presidency, the Republicans at the very least want to be better placed to override a presidential veto.
Has anyone noticed the Grand Old Party (GOP) is no more?
Undercut by a coterie of prodigiously wealthy mega-billionaires with hard-right agendas, and deconstructed by Fox News, the Grand Old Party has been quietly laid to rest. It has been transformed into a vehicle for fantasies nurtured in a political hothouse made in the USA. The Republican Party which has superseded the GOP embodies all the myopia and dementia of a culture remarkably out of touch with the world which it has dominated and largely controlled since World War II. It is now desperately trying to compensate for its declining power and influence worldwide by becoming a fortress dedicated to battling forces of change inside and outside of its territory. We must make America great again, in the words of Donald Trump.
