We're definitely in the middle of a realignment, but realignments aren't defined by demographic shifts. Those are just downstream affects of what's really going on, changes in the ideological foundations of our coalitions. Essentially, when the world around us changes it creates a crisis as the ideological coalitions (conservatism and li…
We're definitely in the middle of a realignment, but realignments aren't defined by demographic shifts. Those are just downstream affects of what's really going on, changes in the ideological foundations of our coalitions. Essentially, when the world around us changes it creates a crisis as the ideological coalitions (conservatism and liberalism for us) can no longer solve new problems. They collapse, and we invent new ideas for the next age.
That's what's really going on. So our challenge is to create two new competing ideologies capable of both sustaining majorities and solving our new problems. (Which so far most of us, stuck in the politics of the past, haven't be able to do).
We're definitely in the middle of a realignment, but realignments aren't defined by demographic shifts. Those are just downstream affects of what's really going on, changes in the ideological foundations of our coalitions. Essentially, when the world around us changes it creates a crisis as the ideological coalitions (conservatism and liberalism for us) can no longer solve new problems. They collapse, and we invent new ideas for the next age.
That's what's really going on. So our challenge is to create two new competing ideologies capable of both sustaining majorities and solving our new problems. (Which so far most of us, stuck in the politics of the past, haven't be able to do).
I wrote a book about it! The Next Realignment.