The demographics of this country are changing and in order to build a conservative majority we absolutely have to make minorities feel comfortable in this party.
I was listening on the radio today and a black man was talking about how Voter ID, Immigration Reform, Welfare reform drive minorities away who may otherwise be attracted to our economic message due to the racist undertones of such policies.
Don’t get all upset. I was offened by this suggestion, too. The last thing I think about when I support these ideas is racism. But, apparently minorities see everything through the prism of race. To be honest, I’m thinking mostly about fiscal responsibility and national integrity with these items. Nevertheless, our minority brothers and sisters (blacks, asians, hispanics) are inferring something nefarious when that is the last thing being implied.
Our mission over the next several years should be to do a better job of welcoming minorities into the conservative party and make sure we do a better job of explaining how our policy ideas help everyone. On the flip side, we also need to keep explaining how the policies of the left have done minorities no good over the last 60 years.
The bottom line is the conservative movement won’t survive unless we can get minorities on board. We need to step up and get these folks on board helping us
Not until you pry the Obamaphone out of their cold dead hands. If welfare reform, meaning getting a job, offends them so much, what makes you think they would love our other economic ideas.
“The demographics of this country are changing and in order to build a conservative majority we absolutely have to make minorities feel comfortable in this party.”
I’ve listened to this tripe time and time and time and time and time and time (had enough yet?) again.
It doesn’t work.
After four years of ignoring the plight of black Americans, 93% voted for Obama, again.
He won 71% of the Hispanic vote the second time around.
He won 73% of “the Asian vote”. Heck, Asians (who presumably work hard and are “conservative”) voted for the ‘rats at a higher percentage than did Hispanics!
The traditional brand of “conservatism, American-style” by its very design seems to appeal mostly to one ethnic/racial demographic group. To others, not so much, or hardly at all.
You cannot change what conservatism is. If you try to bend it into some concoction that is designed to appeal to the Hispanic/Asian ethnic groups, it isn’t going to be “conservatism” any longer. And by doing so, it would lose the support of that single group that believes in it today.
A large and growing proportion of the American population just doesn’t seem interested in “conservatism” anymore.
A hard truth to be sure, but just because the truth may be hard makes it no less true.
To believe that you’re going to be able to convert non-Euros to traditional conservatism is nothing more than believing that some undefinable magic solution is going to appear out of nowhere to save our side.
It’s not.