Sorry, but "Biden’s convincing win" was not convincing. It would never have happened without the active complicity of the DNC. It was not Joe Biden who won but the DNC who could simply not imagine Sanders as leader.
Sorry, but I can't really see what you are suggesting happening. The Republican party has been the party of the plutocrats for time out of mind. They survived the Great Depression and remained the party of the plutocrats so I don't see our current conundrum as being fatal to their political philosophy. What I see is very different.
The US often likes to claim that it is the first democracy but this, of course, is pure bullshit. One of the oldest and (officially speaking) longest lived was the most serene republic of Venice which came into existence around 800 AD and lasted until it collapsed in the face of Napoleon in 1797 AD. The Venice that collapsed in 1797 was not the democratic Venice of 800; that Venice had been transformed to an oligarchy hundreds of years earlier. What I find interesting is that transformation of Venice from a democracy to an oligarchy began, as far as I can tell with problems with their elections. They started by making the elections more complicated with certain elite members selecting a dizzying array of zontas who then elected other zontas (small groups) who picked other groups who then... as it is all very confusing unless you've just read it, I'd direct your attention to John J Norris' "A History of Venice". In the somewhat bigger picture, this process went from selecting the candidates for election to selecting the Doge himself and that's how the Venetians lost their democracy. The other tradition that I think is highly appropriate for today is that someone would run to the house of the new Doge who would be placed in a chair on a tall pole which was then paraded through town whilst the new Doge showered the crowds with golden Ducats.
Bringing this back to your piece, I don't think that the two rather inadequate parties are about to swap political poles. I think they're about to merge them to give us an official oligarchy now that the Democrats have officially sold out to the rentier class.
Sorry, but "Biden’s convincing win" was not convincing. It would never have happened without the active complicity of the DNC. It was not Joe Biden who won but the DNC who could simply not imagine Sanders as leader.
I think that point was made repeatedly in the article.
Sorry, but I can't really see what you are suggesting happening. The Republican party has been the party of the plutocrats for time out of mind. They survived the Great Depression and remained the party of the plutocrats so I don't see our current conundrum as being fatal to their political philosophy. What I see is very different.
The US often likes to claim that it is the first democracy but this, of course, is pure bullshit. One of the oldest and (officially speaking) longest lived was the most serene republic of Venice which came into existence around 800 AD and lasted until it collapsed in the face of Napoleon in 1797 AD. The Venice that collapsed in 1797 was not the democratic Venice of 800; that Venice had been transformed to an oligarchy hundreds of years earlier. What I find interesting is that transformation of Venice from a democracy to an oligarchy began, as far as I can tell with problems with their elections. They started by making the elections more complicated with certain elite members selecting a dizzying array of zontas who then elected other zontas (small groups) who picked other groups who then... as it is all very confusing unless you've just read it, I'd direct your attention to John J Norris' "A History of Venice". In the somewhat bigger picture, this process went from selecting the candidates for election to selecting the Doge himself and that's how the Venetians lost their democracy. The other tradition that I think is highly appropriate for today is that someone would run to the house of the new Doge who would be placed in a chair on a tall pole which was then paraded through town whilst the new Doge showered the crowds with golden Ducats.
Bringing this back to your piece, I don't think that the two rather inadequate parties are about to swap political poles. I think they're about to merge them to give us an official oligarchy now that the Democrats have officially sold out to the rentier class.