With realignment happening about
every 30 years and the last one being in 1968 I am sure the United States of America
will see another major realignment in our near future. With issues such as gay
marriage, marijuana and healthcare bubbling to the surface, we are slowly
building up to an earthquake of realignment.
Many of the main ingredients for
realignment are already prevalent: Increased voter turnout for smaller legislature
due to greater exposure to the public on many of these issues, dramatic changes
such as many of the states legalizing gay marriage and marijuana for
recreational use.
All it should take now is for some dramatic
event to occur to push voters into booths and legislators to change their way
of legislating. This should be in the near future, and I’m excited for it.
On November 4, 2014 Justin Barrada, talked about a possible political realignment coming soon. His article was titled Realignment. I would like to take a moment to agree with Justin. I think that we are at a point where many people are unhappy with the progress that the government has made towards many issues.The government was designed to follow public opinion with a time delay however, this time the delay has gone on for long enough. In our life time we will get to see a political realignment it is just a matter of time.
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