Is The T Party Already Toast Or Do We Need Another Election To Correct Them

How do Bernie Sanders supporters feel about the election of Tom Perez as DNC Chair?

At first, I was upset, but now I'm only a little disappointed.There are a couple things I think my fellow Bernie supporters should feel good about.Tom Perez had little to do with the Clintons. He's not from their wing. During the Clinton presidency he was a civil rights lawyer and then the chief civil rights advisor for Senator Ted Kennedy. Freaking Ted Kennedy, not some blue dog Dem, okay?He went into state politics in Maryland and then was Labor dept. head for Martin O'Malley. He pushed for living wages and against health care privatization.He was in the Obama administration all 8 years and was a reliably liberal voice.If we wanted a liberal, we've got one. He's a relative newcomer to the “establishment” having worked for O’Malley & Obama. Not Clinton. This is an improvement. Or are we against Obama too now? I'm not.4. He didn't win by much - 235 to 200 votes, an 8% gap. That's closer than Bernie got against Hillary, and this was among 440 Democratic insiders. Many of them have gotten the message, more than before.5. As a show of good faith Perez immediately chose Ellison as the Deputy.We're making progress. We've come far and are on the right track. I wanted Ellison to win because Bernie backed him, but I see the end result here as a glass more than half full.

What would the general election look like if the leftmost and rightmost candidates won the primaries?

Well, you would have Ted Cruz running against Bernie Sanders.   This is really not too far fetched as money is losing its influence in politics because of over saturation. When hundreds of billions of dollars are spent on a daily basis to spew out nonsensical, ignorant, hateful, slanderous, delusion and untrue propaganda people begin to ignore what big money has to say. The last election candidates who had enormous war chests and the ruthless guru Karl Rove get defeated.  Sanders would win this fantasy election matchup with Cruz because the Tea Party is literally toast. The Coffee party is flourishing on social media as is Bernie Sanders. Celebrities are endorsing Sanders also. Years ago I personally sent Bernie Sanders an email commending him for his courage and bravery in declaring himself an independent and not selling himself out to big business. I told him then I would like to see him run for president. I am getting my wish. I hope he beats Clinton in the primary and wins the general election. The country has drifted way out into right field and needs to be centered up.

Has Mrs. May, with her decisions re. Brexit and Corbyn, now destroyed the Conservative Party’s hopes of winning any election in the near future?

We must remind ourselves that Parliament awarded itself a legally binding gagging order to prevent itself from interfering with the will of the people, even though it didn’t need to do this, it had no idea where it was heading, and it had no idea what obstacles and hurdles it might have to overcome.The Brexiters who planned this charade knew exactly what they were doing, and they didn’t want anyone, least of all Parliament, to get in the way.Their objective was to leave the EU before new EU legislation came into force beginning of April 2019. And it would have worked had the EU not outmanoeuvred them and introduced the very legislation the Brexiters were hell bent on separating themselves from, hence the extensions.As the months rolled by, it probably became clear that the Brexiters would never get their own way, so what better way to thwart their dreams than by writing a Withdrawal Agreement that no sane person could possibly vote for, and then to keep pushing it knowing it would fail, and then at the 11th hour to ask for an extension that kept the UK in the EU during the very week that the new EU legislation came into force. Only divine intervention could have achieved this.If you pretended that Brexit never existed, then we have got to this point in time when EU elections are imminent allowing the UK to participate as if it never considered leaving in the first place.With the passing of time, UK politics will I am sure return to the conventional routine, Tories will go back to being Tories, Labour to Labour and it will soon all be forgotten about, and come 2021 or thereabouts, the general election will be fought along the same lines as all previous general elections, and the public will have forgotten that Brexit ever existed, the press will see to that.

Can the mainstream, moderate-majority of the Republican Party remove the Tea Party and its perceived control over the entire Republican Party? How?

Remove? No. Not any more than they can remove the Religious Right. What they need to do is similar to what happened back 1854 - moderate elements that are more in line with majority opinion on social issues need to split off and start their own party, much like anti-slavery elements split off from the Whigs 160 years ago to found the Republican party.Right now, the GOP finds itself in a situation where anyone who can win their primary is unlikely to do well in the general election. Pandering to the Tea Party and Fundamentalist Christians forces candidates into positions that make them easy prey for Democrats and unattractive to moderates. The Religious Right and the Tea Party keep them from taking rational, conservative positions on key issues and so moderate Democrats become more and more attractive. So far this only impacts them in Presidential elections, but the youth vote is getting larger and their base keeps them from going after it so they have maybe two more cycles before this starts costing them seats in Congress and governorships. If highly visible elements of the GOP broke off and formed a party not molded by a minority version of personal morality and an "all government is bad" attitude they'd be able to harvest a lot of people who vote Democrat as the lesser of two evils. If they made refusal to become captive to corporate interests a foundation of the party in a sincere and convincing way, they'd pick up the increasingly disenfranchised middle class. And if they called the Republicans and Democrats out on their failure to govern with the best interests of the citizens and the nation in mind over the last 20 years, they'd pick up most moderates from both parties. Democrats would be forced to respond, and we'd have an actual working government with actual opposition parties again. The GOP needs to splinter. The country needs them to do it.