This is an amazing hurrah of the Sixities Right that lost the culture war battles of the 50s and 60s.
Very perceptive observation, Jake.
The GOP intelligensia figured out how to tap into the enthusiasm of the reactionaries against the social liberations of the 60s (but really mostly all that happened in the 70s).
I mean if you read the comments posted by many self-proclaiming conservatives here on boards like this one, you see the same people who loath liberals and the Dem party are mostly very socially conservative.
Not that there are not fiscally conservative thinkers in the GOP, but they alone do not have the voter power to keep the GOP alive.
The excesses of liberalism of the 60s and 70s, and the arrogance of the DNC when they had total control over government created the NEW REPUBLICAN party.
This would be the party of Reaganista democrats, actually.
What America really seems to be working out is a SOCIAL CIVIL WAR, that both parties are glomming onto.
I say
glomming onto because I don't really think the leadership of either party really gives a rats ass about the issues that Americans are at each other's thoats about.
But since these issues essentially cost the leaders of each party NOTHING to sign onto, they have surgically attacked themselves, each to the different SOCIAL MOVEMENTS that are tearing this nation apart.
Where I think the DNC made a tragic mistake was abandoning the BLUE CLLAR/GRAY collar WHITE MALE WORKING CLASS that formerly was the source of their voting power.
And if you were an adult male just starting out his career in the 70's as I was, and if you'd been screwed by affirmative action once or twice, you might truly understand what I mean when I say the LIBERALS became ARROGANT with their victories, too.
So the Dems lost the trust that the working classes once had in them.
Sure the Dems gain still more of the minority votes and they won still more the females votes, too.
But the Ds
ALREADY HAD those voter blocks.
So their excesses drive a HUGE number of former Ds into the GOP camp.
And their continued excesses even in the 80s and 90's further alientate white men AND THEIR FAMILIES, too.
Idiots!
I warned 'em!
Wanna know what I got for sounding the alarm about this political mistake?
I got labeled a SEXIST AND A RACIST for pointing out that they were demanding that White MEN, people who were NOT well connected (like the limo liberals are) pay the price for the sexism and racism which those White males who had absolutely nothing to do with sexism or racism, and whose families had gained absolutely no benefit from either of those ISMs whatever.
You see...its terrible easy to be a LIBERAL when you're well off and the stupid ******* policies the Dems passed wouldn't be effecting you.
But for the tens of millions of White men who were treated like SHIT by and villuified the Dems and by the laws they passed (that were racist and sexist against WHITE MEN) WEll...where did the DNC expect them to turn?
DNC hubris created the NEW REPUBLICAN party, Jake.
