The Dems will survive, based on their allies in the media, for at least a few more years. The real problem is that as they melt down to the left, the Republican party can continue acting like the old Dems (spend, spend, spend, enlarge government) and look “reasonable.” At this point I see the following political parties-within-parties in action:

America-Bashing Party (the moonbats, commies, & eco-freaks)
Jacksonian (firmly small-government, balanced budget)
Religious (Hail, Christian Sharia!)
Establishment (R’s and D’s who don’t have any principle but staying in power)

Whether or not such parties come to exist in reality (though they’ll have other names) remains to be seen, but the biggest thing preventing it is money. Political campaigns cost huge bucks, and the donors are going to spend their money in self-interested ways, not altruistic. Thus any party has to show that it can get elected to office before it can obtain the donations it needs to field candidates for office. The top political consultants, pollsters, and staffers in this country do NOT work for free.

And the only people that might, (that’s us, the public) have gotten too lazy and apathetic to organize from the ground up. Maybe we’re seeing a change in that, what with Protest Warrior and other groups being formed. But they need a leader of national stature to rally around. Someone’s got to carry the banner while a national organization is built. There’s 2 or 3 pols on the outside of their party’s structure that *could* do it. But why *would* they?