I’m still wondering why Republicans have done everything they can to appeal to whites only and be as repellant as they can to non-white voters when they know it’s demographic suicide. I mean, I’m sure the simple minded among us are convinced by a few SOTU plants who get scholarships like Oprah passing out Lincolns, but most people see through that.
Is it because racism inspires conservatives to get out there and vote as if the white race depends on it?
Thoughts?
Here's the thing. Republicans, who ironically preach self-reliance and rule of law etc..., are the party of victims. They are always ready to blame some other group of people for the ills of the world, or their personal struggles.
So just as the republican party was beginning to wake up and realize that their older, white, wealthy guy base was not going to sustain itself much longer, they started making efforts to appeal to Latino voters. This was back in the Bush years and into Obama's terms. Jeb and his spanish, setting up Rubio as the "future of the party" Alberto Gonzoles as Attorney General, creating outreach programs, etc...
But then came their glowing orange god, descending from Heave... I mean the second floor, on an escalator. We all know the story, yadda, yadda, yadda, he becomes president.
Now, the party of victims has found the ultimate leader. The constant victim of all things. Donald, The Marmalade Molester, Trump.
He whips the victims into a frothy fury, as he tells them that Mexicans and South Americans are the cause of their problems. The media is the enemy. your enemy, they are lying to you, whatever you see from the media is fake because they are against me and you and we are their victims.
Marches in streets with hordes of pasty white victims with guns and torches. Chanting about Jews and African Americans. And who stands by these victims side? The Golden Blob. There to assure all neo-nazi fucksticks that they are indeed very fine people.
This opens up the floodgates of all those racists, that had been bottling it up as best they could for so long. We all know them. It's your uncle, or your mom, or brother. Sure they would say things like "Those people" or "why can't the blacks just help themselves?"
But now - freedom! The racists. The poor victims of political correctness, and affirmative action, bi-racial marriage and black folks moving into their neighborhood, had finally been given the freedom to be the assholes they are and it felt so good!
The leader of the victims could no wrong. He was so strong and would protect them from the evil brown intruders with huge steel walls. The best walls. And they were gonna pay for it. He protects us from the liberals and the media and the war on Christmas and baby killers, he tells us its ok to hate.
The GOP had the chance and even started to move to be a more inclusive party, but was sidelined along the way. Sure, Trump has been a disaster for our country. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined it would be this bad when i thought about it 3 years ago. But what they don't understand is that Trump has just dramatically shortened the life of the party. They could have shifted course and built a new, younger, more inclusive party. But Trump was too tempting, too freeing, spoke to them too clearly in a way they waited so long to hear.
But now, as baby boomers head to the great beyond, and our country becomes more diverse by the month. There will come a tipping point. Most likely in this decade, where the party as it exists now will die.
Once TX is blue, and GA is blue and AZ is blue, and FL is dependably blue. The game is over. And they will have Trump, and their victimhood to thank.
just because he's rich. They're absolutists and don't understand that there's a fucking scale of evil! Fore example, not all Wall Street devotees are made equally. Obama wasn't Bush. But try telling Bernie Bros that.
