TRANSLATION: “We are sore losers.”
Basically the takers outnumber the producers.
Oh humbug. As the RINOs realize they’ve lost control, they keep acting like they’re the real conservatives—and (the real) conservative majority is just stupid....
The democrats were never high-minded. Only high buttocked, they wear them around the face area.
Somehow I seem to have missed that Buckleyite Republican Party of the last thirty years.
“Technology and changing mores have conspired to lower barriers of entry—and acceptability. Gatekeepers no longer exist.”
Ohhh nooo. Ill translate.
“We no longer control the media and people can organize on their own now. Acceptable? To who exactly? And yes, Gatekeepers to political parties. Neither of which are mentioned in the constitution.
FU
There, fixed it.
” One tribe consists of minorities and educated elites, while the other tribe increasingly consists of working-class whites.”
Wasn’t much point in reading past this line although I did.
The author of this op-ed couldn’t be more wrong. I do think he sees the writing on the wall that we will have a Republican President. What he wants is someone closer to what he believes than what Trump seems to be offering. It’s in all the small tell-tale words he uses to slander those who don’t agree with his premise.
All in all; a major fail as an op-ed in trying to sound objective. Lose lose all the way through.
America’s political parties, especially the Democratic Party, is more like a religion than a tribe.
More navel gazing.
Read "Stealing America" by Dinesh D'Souza...
I've not read anyone who so clearly describes the current state of politics in American. It readily explains why all these non-governing agencies each have their own personal militarized police force. They know in the long run, the governed are ruled by the barrel of a gun. Therefore they need to have their fair (or unfair) share of firepower to keep up with the alphabet soup of non-governing agencies that have their own standing armies at the ready.
Read the book, as it's quite an eye-opener...
I think that the rules governing the way the GOP allocates delegates will probably benefit someone who is a more mainstream and thoughtful conservative, like Marco Rubio.
It has started.
from link:
The Post piece found that “the ratio of Republicans to Democrats has tilted to the right in nearly every Senate and nearly every legislature” since Obama was elected to the White House.
“According to the NCSL data,” the Post article notes, “there were 4,082 Democrats in state senates and state houses in 2009. In 2015, there were 3,163 - a decrease of 22.5 percent.”
This massive loss, the article notes, is another reason the Democrat’s bench is so weak all over the country.