If I'm the GOP, I forge an identity for libertarian/classical liberal/classical conservative minds. They have the upper hand on universal ideals that appeal to all religions, races, and creeds. I argue they have far more substantial and eloquent arguments and policy possibilities that truly can move us in a naturally progressive manner.
It's funny. The left always screams to purge the likes of Limbaugh from the Republican influential base. The GOP definitely has some cleaning up to do.
However, what about Jackson, Sharpton, Sontag etc.? They can stay in the Democrat fold?
Sharpton, for example, directly affected lives negatively as he did with the Duke Lacrosse fake scandal. I didn't see no Tea Partier do that.
Vox Day is predicting another Civil War in the US. One point where I think he got it right was in this post where he says there's a difference between historical America and "third world" America: We already knew the "conservative Catholic Hispanic" vote upon which Karl Rove and George W. Bush were going to build their permanent Republican majority doesn't exist. But the theory of the conservative Asian voter appears to be even more of a myth. Of course, why immigrants from cultures with zero tradition of limited government would ever be expected to respect the concept has never been explained to my satisfaction. And where would they learn to appreciate it in modern America? The public schools? At university? http://voxday.blogspot.com/2012/11/breakdown.html
ReplyDeleteWe have two nations in the US, a much more traditionalist white America that believes in a limited Federal government, and a new non-white America that believes in an ever expanding Federal government. The two sides won't live in peace forever. I fear for my country, bad times ahead.
You have to hit the second generation of the new immigrants. It's only natural they seek cold comfort of the state as they leave war-savaged, usually, societies with dysfunctional governance.
ReplyDeleteMagazines like Reason and Le Quebecois Libre have to be supported at full tilt.
What I don't get was the firing of Scott Brown. Even my liberal friend thought he was a moderate who worked with the Democrats. Worse, they traded that for an ideologue like Elizabeth Warren. Next, Massachusetts voted a corrupt soul in John Tierney over a gay Republican.
Weird.
But as my friend tells me, Massachusetts is an educated state.
Whatever that means.
Democrats run against Republicans, Republicans run against Democrats, 85% of the media, and a image ingrained by decades of Democratic politics.
DeleteThere is little they can do about it.
Are you suggesting America is now a one-party country?
ReplyDeleteHappened here in Canada when the Progressive Conservative party of Canada was annihilated from the Canadian political landscape back in the early 1990s never to return but to be reformed later on.
Now they're in power again.
Not saying it's the same but there's hope.
First order of business is for the GOP to embrace the libertarian faction and help mainstream it.
There HAS to be gold in them there hills in these ranks.