....just as valid a reason or explanation as is the ‘unfairness’ of American society. Sowell has created a straw man to attack without looking at the real reason entrepreneurial groups like Asian-Americans are not joining the Republican Party. The multiculturalism and diversity that Right-Wingers are attacking is irrelevant. Those who are different yet share entrepreneurial values (Asian-Americans) are not welcomed in the Right-Winged controlled GOP just as if they were Black or Hispanic. ‘Unfairness’ is not the only reason some groups are not advancing. Plain old fashion racism is a better explanation of something that promotes social stagnation. -Zen

...and not the content of their character. Asian-Americans assume rightly that the GOP is a neo-racist party. And that neo-racism is a threat to their economic mobility and opportunity. Asian-American are not stupid and can recognize Right-Wing attacks on Obama as indirect personal attacks on all peoples of color, especially Asian-Americans, the one group who shares the GOP values of individual responsibility and mobility, but they are also sensitive to the ‘dog whistle racism’ of the Right-Winged GOP. Asian-Americans are also the most educated of minority groups and reject the irrational and unscientific positions the Right takes on issues like climate change. Irrational racism as a reason some individuals and groups are not advancing is

Promoting Social Stagnation: Ironically, Thomas Sowell starts off by telling us how Asians from Korea and Vietnam have been most successful at economic mobility. These Asian-Americans share many of the entrepreneurial values of the Right. But they are also joining and voting for the Democratic Party, promoters of the welfare state, in a record breaking surge that is dazzling. Obviously, these people are making assumptions about mobility in a Right-Winged controlled society that Sowell has overlooked. The reason so many Asian-Americans, as well as blacks and Hispanics, are moving into the Democratic column is the perception that the GOP does not want them and will create barriers to their mobility because of the color of their skin and...

Promoting Social Stagnation: Ironically, Thomas Sowell starts off by telling us how Asians from Korea and Vietnam have been most successful at economic mobility. These Asian-Americans share many of the entrepreneurial values of the Right. But they are also joining and voting for the Democratic Party, promoters of the welfare state, in a record breaking surge that is dazzling. Obviously, these people are making assumptions about mobility in a Right-Winged controlled society that Sowell has overlooked. The reason so many Asian-Americans, as well as blacks and Hispanics, are moving into the Democratic column is the perception that the GOP does not want them and will create barriers to their mobility because of the color of their skin and...

.....Chavez was no Fidel, and Obama is no Chavez. President Obama would have to be determined to destroy the GOP, and not try to work for some imaginary ‘grand bargain’ with people who hold him in contempt. Then he would truly be transformative. Viva Chavez. His strategy, leadership, movement and message will endure long after he is gone. -Zen

....understands that, the sooner they can save themselves by working with the man and not obstructing him. The Right feared Chavez not because he was a revolutionary, but because he was a democratic revolutionary who won four elections that even former President Carter said were fair and honest. For all its anti-revolutionary rants and ravings, the Right-Wing fears real democracy. How else can you explain their attempts to destroy real democracy via voter suppression, gerrymandering, Citizens United, suppression of community organizers like Acorn? How else can you explain their attempts to destroy President Obama with obstruction and obstinacy? They fear President Obama may be another Chavez in the making. So don’t worry, be happy....

No Fidel and No Obama either: Instead of ridiculous ad hominems, Fontova should praise Chavez. Actually, Chavez deserves twice the adulation and celebrity status of Fidel because his radical revolutionary changes have, compared to the Cuban Revolution, been relatively nonviolent, bloodless, yet just as transformative. He has been able to copy the Cuban model yet retain institutional Democracy that gives real political voice and participation to the down trodden ‘people.’ Chavez was no ‘cheap chump and clown.’ Instead, he was a radical and transformative democratic leader whom Right-Wingers feared because they can imagine President Obama doing the same things. But don’t worry, be happy. Obama is not transformative. The sooner the Right...

....transitioning to renewable energy. He has no other choice since he is dealing with people not accessible to compromise. The same Right-Wingers so concerned about government meddling in our lives have no problem putting their noses into women’s panties and doubling down on their war on women. Reagan makes one correct point; the out of power status of the GOP in terms of the White House, and Senate, and MSM bias. Let us hope it stays that way. Zen

....rights for gays. The Right-Winged controlled Republican Party is responsible for the recession and the two wars abroad that are bankrupting us. The GOP is also making recovery impossible with its politics of brinkmanship, obstruction, and no compromise on the great issues of the day. It is the Right that has rejected Obama’s ‘balance approach’ to spending and tax cuts in favor of reckless cuts to Social Security and Medicare. President Obama will get his way by either executive orders or by mobilizing the public, the Alinsky method, to pressure Congress to his way or the highway. The road he is taking is in response to a Congress that has no concern about reducing pollution, dealing with the consequences of climate change, or ....

Compared to Failures on the Right: Reagan is attacking the President at a time the Right-Wing controlled GOP cannot decide whether it wants to rebrand its party by broadening its agenda to appeal to those groups that voted for Obama over Romney. Michael Reagan is sticking to the failed school of Tea Party advocates that Karl Rove wants to get rid of as ‘unelectable.’ They are unelectable because their agenda has been rejected by the majority of voters as too wacky. The voters reelected Obama because they agreed with his agenda of more public spending on infrastructure, schools, and jobs creation. They have also abandoned the Right on social issues. They public wants more gun control, immigration reform, fighting climate change, and equal...

...Obama four more years. Derek Hunter wants to sell us the same old stale message, but says we need a compelling speaker, like President Reagan, to deliver it. Hunter needs to take his Public Speaking 101 Class over again. If the Right-Wingers had a compelling message, no amount of MSM distraction would have destroyed that message. The problem is not the lack of a compelling messenger. The problem is the message. Instead of broadening that message to reach more excluded groups who are unwelcomed in the GOP, Hunter wants to double down on stupid. He wants to continue delivering the same message hoping to get different results, if only we can find a compelling speaker. What is that the definition of? Zen