David2074
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David2074
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David2074
Frankly, I"m amazed the Republican party would even consider Trump. For some time now they have supposedly been trying to revamp their image of being the party of old rich white guys who don't give a crap about women, minorities or the poor and being in bed with big business.
But the Republican Party IS the party of old rich white guys who don't give a crap about women, minorities or the poor and being in bed with big business.
Let's face it, Trump's doing well because he's the embodiment of the GOP and Tea Party.
The Republican party may or may not BE the party of old rich white guys but they have been trying hard not to be PERCEIVED as the party of old rich white guys.
Evidence of same is their own internal reviews and attempts to change their image as they acknowledged their traditional image was causing them to lose ground.
I haven't seen any real movement of any substance on that front. Half-hearted window dressing, that's about it.
The GOP does not even want to HEAR that they need hispanics to win the next election.
Well, head in the sand won't work forever.
While we still have a fair number of rich white guys more and more of the US population is "other".
(Female, black, hispanic, asian etc etc)
So pissing off those groups starts to be more and more relevant than it was the election four years ago and the one four years before that and so on. It was probably a lot easier to blow off people "not like us" back when the women were not allowed to vote or have high level jobs and black people were slaves and the Chinese were busing building railroads for coolee wages and the Japanese were eyed with suspicion after WW2 and anybody who remotely sounded like they were from "Russia" was considered to be a commie and so on.
If they don't manage to appeal to a broader base then I think their relevance will begin to diminish. Possibly the Republicans' best thing they have going for them right now is that Democrats have also done some pretty good screw ups so people typically have to choose the lesser of two evils when it is time to vote.
Come on. This is just wishful thinking that ignores basic math.
Hispanics = about 17 percent of the electorate. But since many don't even bother voting even this number is inflated somewhat. Even when you can get Hispanics to turn out in large numbers, they will naturally vote Democrat. Many Latin countries are far left politically. Mexico has the distinction of being a country with two major political parties that are members of the Socialist International. Expecting people from such left-wing countries to easily vote Republican is foolish.
Blacks = 14 percent. But there's almost zero chance Republicans could win a majority or better of black voters. Republicans would spend their time better digging sandpits than trying to win a huge percentage of the black vote.
Asian - about 6 percent. Maybe more promising here, especially given the mistreatment of Asian shopkeepers by black criminals like Michael Brown, and the overwhelming Democratic support for such black criminals at the expense of Asians. But even if Republicans won the Asian vote overwhelmingly that, alone, wouldn't win nationally,
American Indian / pacific islander - Less than 2 percent. Not worth investing too much energy into outside of Hawaii. And I doubt Hawaii will vote Republican any time soon no matter what the GOP does.
So, those together make up about 40 percent of the electorate, and not one piece of that 40 percent is naturally inclined to vote GOP. Convincing large numbers to do so would take astronomical amounts of money and good luck and time. Decades, likely. There's no way to turn it around by 2016, or even the next half-dozen elections.
Meanwhile, there's another piece of the pie out there, about 63 percent of it, which is naturally inclined to vote GOP. Or, at least, more inclined than all the others. It would take a lot less convincing to shift more of the 63 percent to the GOP than to shift those other pieces. The cost-effective method would be to focus on increasing the share of the biggest slice, 63 percent.
Does anybody want to do that anymore? Noooo.... I can only conclude a deep insanity has a stranglehold on the elites in this country.
Especially for the GOP, which is signing its own death warrant by importing so many of these natural Democrats from Latin America, Asia, and so forth. I can see why Democrats would want to import a bunch of guaranteed new Democratic voters. But Republicans? They're killing the future of their own party. Continuing to encourage this will send the GOP wherever the Whig Party went. But still, for some reason, Republican leaders are supporting their own destruction.
Because these demographic changes are the result of deliberate government policies, not some natural change that nobody can stop.
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