Let’s use the occasion of America’s semiquincentennial to make some kind of prediction question about what our country will be like on the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
We could ask deep questions like whether America will still be a nation 50 years from now — or softball questions like whether America is resilient enough to overcome our current crises. Let’s try to get something more relevant to our current politics: the ol’ two-party system.
You likely know that George Washington warned against establishing political parties, but it happened anyway. Hopefully you also know how the parties have stood for different things at different times. The Democratic Party was once the party fighting civil rights, for example. It later changed course and now the Republican Party is the one coddling white supremacists at its highest levels. And both parties are facing fractures: MAGA extremists on the right, democratic socialists making inroads from the left.
So it’s really hard to say what those two parties will be like in 2076. But will we still be using just two parties during the US tricentennial?
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