the two-party system might actually be too entrenched to dissolve, but on the other hand it makes no sense. mike murphy, the republican consultant, was on morning joe this morning suggesting that ted cruz "take a vacation to little bighorn", while scarborough was supposedly quoting the very biggest donors to the republican party (who dat? kochs, etc?) as saying they couldn't contribute to the party under these circumstances. understand, the cruzians are completely incompatible with wall street and with k street. so murphy and david axelrod are collaborating across parties to stamp that out. the center is broadly technocratic, wall-street oriented, national-security state. axelrod and murphy or obama and mccain have much more in common with each other than with tea partiers. now, were a center squishy totalitarian party to emerge, the real left would almost have to jump ship. are they going to sit there agreeing with lindsey graham? so i like a three-party set-up: a libertarian right, a wall street/nsa center and a real like socialisty left.
if you really thought it was billionaires who invented the tea party, you were wrong. there were certainly attempts to appropriate it or use the term for your lobbying organization etc. but it was and is also a grassroots movement, blazing across parts of america that you may not be familiar with. it knows itself to be incompatible with country-club republicanism. it wants to battle internally to control the republican party, but it is about to be quarantined and crushed. so, secede!
