{"id":377896,"date":"2018-09-20T03:58:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T02:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/political-fragmentation-on-the-homefront\/"},"modified":"2018-09-20T03:58:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T02:58:46","slug":"political-fragmentation-on-the-homefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/political-fragmentation-on-the-homefront\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Fragmentation on the Homefront"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_105430\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105430\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/233322921_c26cabd2d3_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/233322921_c26cabd2d3_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/233322921_c26cabd2d3_z-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Jackie | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The United States is politically fragmenting. It would seem that the various cultural and ideological stresses impacting the nation are destabilizing the country\u2019s two traditional political parties.<\/p>\n<p>At this point in the fragmentation process we can identify four political groupings. They are (1) those of\u00a0<em>Democratic Party\u00a0<\/em>persuasion\u2014and it should be noted that the Democrats are being stressed by contesting interpretations of just what the party stands for; (2) those of continuing\u00a0<em>Republican Party<\/em>\u00a0persuasion, which by now really represents a small \u201crump\u201d party of Trump supporters; (3) the\u00a0<em>independents<\/em>\u00a0now bolstered by what once was the \u201cmoderate\u201d multitude of the Republican Party as well as a growing number of ex-Democrats on the disaffected left; and (4) the mass of\u00a0<em>apolitical<\/em>Americans who have always been alienated from politics and usually do not vote. This last group also may well be growing. Let\u2019s look at these four groups in more detail against the backdrop of contemporary events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Democratic Party Under Stress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are reported to be some 43 million registered Democrats in the U.S. We know, however, that the Democratic Party has been having trouble translating their numbers into\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_party_strength_in_U.S._states\">continuous electoral success.<\/a>\u00a0Why so? Part of the answer has to do with the fact that the party leaders concentrate on recruiting and satisfying a constituency of centrists. This not only leaves the leftists consistently frustrated, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/09\/19\/political-fragmentation-on-the-homefront\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Jackie | CC BY 2.0 The United States is politically fragmenting. It would seem that the various cultural and ideological stresses impacting the nation are destabilizing the country\u2019s two traditional political parties. At this point in the fragmentation process we can identify four political groupings. They are (1) those of\u00a0Democratic Party\u00a0persuasion\u2014and it should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-377896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}