Albatrossity2
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| Quote (blipey @ Nov. 15 2008,19:30) | | Quote (stevestory @ Nov. 13 2008,23:54) | {snip}
The way forward is not a cultish worship of Most Holy Ronald. The way forward for the GOP is to understand why young, passionate, educated people are fleeing the GOP like it's a chemical fire. If you look at the demographic trends, a party that primarily appeals to the old, white, southern, rural, and uneducated is a party that is F*$%ed. |
I always find this fascinating in that I completely fail to understand the Republican mindset. On a completely academic level I get it, but I really don't understand it in a personally relevant way.
Republicans (at least the base) are socially conservative and philosophically conservative. They are reactionary, not progressive. They are the party of inertia, not of change. IMO, they are afraid of change; they like the status quo more than they would ever back change of any kind.
This is closely related to the GOP Base's opinion of and behavior toward academia--a group of people who's very purpose in life is to seek out the new. |
There was an interesting article in the NY Times a few days back, comparing the current Republican defeat with the situation of the Tories in the UK a while back. One suggestion for the Repubs from the article - "they had to look as if they actually liked the country they sought to govern, rather than wishing they could turn back time."
Not likely to happen anytime soon...
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Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind
Has been obligated from the beginning
To create an ordered universe
As the only possible proof of its own inheritance.
- Pattiann Rogers
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