The war is lost because the demographics have changed. The Reagan Democrats are either dead or Republican.
About 2/3’s of the economy is based on the government. Either through direct employment or through its proxies. Unions, contractors, entitlement beneificaries, including Social Security recipients.
It’s hopeless. All we can hope for is for the kids of today to grow up and refuse to pay for it. Once bankruptcy is looming change will come but not anytime soon.
We are stuck on this boat ran by socialists for the next 30 years.
John
D00d. 40m of 120m votes... That is just the Christian right... throw in the fiscal conservatives, the Libertarians, and conservative Democrats, and the forces involved are unstoppable.
We need to throw or weight behind that effort. We need a true conservative with a real plan (Contract with America) to give coattails for other conservatives to ride into Congress. A bold move without compromise is the only thing that will take the day, and that bold move will reap rich reward.
Conservatives never win by compromise, but only when they are true to their principles. The nation expects us to clean house, to throw the RINOs out, and to kick the Rockefeller wing into the dirt. Let's give them what they want. When, and only when that occurs, that conservative groundswell will begin.
It is the compromise that leads to the hopelessness you declare.
You're acting as though Republicans haven't held the majority in thirty years. They lost one election last year by a few thousand votes in many contests after breaking many promises that have alienated even their own base. Logically I have to reject your premise as I don't belive in space of three years the population has changed that dramatically.
The only change I do perceive is that people on all political aisles are even more angry at Government in general then they were in 2004. That spells trouble for incumbents. That may be bad for those Republicans in Senate with more seats up, but Dems in the House are another matter. That have more seats to defend there and are ripe to be picked off.