What ".wins" are the beta test for the new republic?
?? Theory ??
I have this odd feeling with the developments of the past few weeks (admin/mod roguishness, faith based arguments, etc) that the ".wins" are a beta test for the new republic. Patriots represent the new liberals and Great Awakening as the new conservatives. (And now America.win featuring Adam Crigler... new Libertarians?) You never want to transition to a monolith so it only makes sense to have (at a bare minimum) a dichotomous system. It had to be this way.
Beta test? Nah, not formally at least. Any group of people inevitably end up shaking out in fairly predictable ways. We have thousands of years of data to look at, no need to model it and gather "new" data.
I suppose beta test is a bit of a misnomer. I think it's a way of realigning the political compass in America.
Compasses are rather amazing things. When left alone they tend to align themselves without any required jiggering of the system. The compass of a ship may point at the bow, when the ship turns some landlubber will say, "oh look now it's pointing to the side". The old salt says, "No laddie, it's pointing at the north pole, it's the ship what's changed." If you tie yourself to a party instead of morality, ethics, honesty, and all that is good and godly, you will get lost. That is what happened to America. It is not the compass that needs realignment, it is the people.
Do you know anything about planetary polar flips? You would have to rebuild a compass if the north pole is now at the south.
Fine, if you wish to be pedantic. No actually you wouldn't would you? You just put the bit of glowy paint on the other end.