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I'm a NYer watching my once-great state turn darker and darker blue. Inner city unemployment is triple national norms. NY nears bankruptcy, even with taxes among the highest in the country. Those with the means flee the state, replaced by Hispanics and other components of the growing American "underclass".
From inner city blacks and Latinos to the Jewish elite, none of these groups can quite pull the lever for the guy with the "R" next to his name. This same is true in CA, MA, NJ, IL, MD - and apparently, NV, VA and maybe FL. How long before TX and AZ are added to the list?
You may be right about GOP's values, but I can't envision it mattering to an increasingly dumbed-down electorate who just wants to take what the rest have worked for.
In the wake of Mitt Romney's loss, many Republicans say the GOP must make far-reaching changes to be competitive in future elections. White voters are a smaller and smaller part of the electorate, they point out, while Latinos and other minorities are growing as a percentage of the voting public. Unless the Republican Party reinvents itself to appeal to those voters, the argument goes, the GOP can get used to being out of power.
There's something to that. The electorate is changing, and the Republican Party needs to keep up with the times. But the more fundamental answer to the...
My personal believe is that this is no longer true. America is increasingly a country of third-world "sheep" with no particular values, and willing to trade their loyalty for things as trivial as contraceptives or the color of a candidate's skin.
In this world, there is no more "right" and "wrong", and the political direction of the country comes down more to marketing and giveaways than anything else. Welcome to Obama's fundamental change.