The GOP has fallen into the trap of going after the low hanging fruit in politics. You can always pick up the people who feel unrepresented and disenfranchised from the mainstream, and you can always count on their frustration, but it is a short term strategy and it always has been. When I was a kid there were cartoons with the community sing: Follow the bouncing ball, lets all sing Daisy! Easy ratings, easy audience, the folks from the Gay 90s joined right in and relived their youth for a little while: a time when the mainstream shared their tastes and ideas. Find those cartoons now. When these folks met their maker they took it all with them. The GOP has not done their homework here, and they are burying themselves so deeply that no amount of gerrymandering can save them. The majority lives on the margins where small gaps decide elections. The Latino block is more than big enough to fill these gaps, and they will in the next election. Tinkering can keep the GOP in power at state levels until 2020, but even this is doomed. Fox News enjoys the highest rating of any cable news outfit, but look at the stats; they also have the sharpest attrition number in the biz, (5-6% per year.). Why? Their viewership is mostly elderly, and they are checking out in major numbers. Within 2-3 years the network, which is a business, will start testing a softer message and more demographic friendly formats. Where does this leave the Republicans? Holding the short end of a stick that is getting shorter and shorter with every obituary. As for their anti-immigrant message, that was a loser from the start. They are promising something they can never deliver. There will be no Night of the long knives in America. the inconvenient truth about immigrants is that most of them already have naturalized citizens in their families. Can we bust 50 million American citizens to deport 10 million? Break in the doors of 70 million American homes?
Posted on: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:59:45 +0000
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