{"article":{"id":294312,"heading":"Crashing the Party","author":"John Nichols","created":"2016-11-27 18:53:20","modified":"2016-11-27 18:53:20","last_modified":"Mon, 28 Nov 2016 01:53:20","article":"

John Nichols is writing for the Rosa Luxemburg foundation in Germany and NYC.

to read his 16-page article, click on

http:\/\/www.rosalux.de\/fileadmin\/rls_uploads\/pdfs\/engl\/nichols_final_1018.pdf<\/a>

If we presume that an election season so chaotic as the one America has experienced in

2016 is unlikely to settle much, and that the chaos is likely to continue, then we must also

presume that internal and external pressure on the parties to change will increase.

Ultimately, it is hard to imagine how the center can hold. That may be an unsettling notion for some. But it is hopeful for those who seek a better politics in America—since changes in

how parties see themselves and the process in which they are engaged create an opening

for broader changes to the political infrastructure of the United States.

Those broader changes are necessary. <\/p>\n","contact":"marc1seed@yahoo.com","link":"www.freembtranslations.net","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Twain in the nineteenth century exposed the excesses of America\u2019s first Gilded Age and sought, without success, to avert the young nation\u2019s lurch toward imperialism.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2016\/11\/294312.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}