An accurate assesment of the GOP

[Mott the Hoople]

This quote from Josh Barro is the most accurate and concise assesment I've read about the current GOP.

"For two decades, the Republican party’s strategy to overcome its disadvantage on economic issues has been a cultural appeal to non-urban whites who feel threatened by social change. That is, the kind of people who think it’s an alarming trend that women are financially independent, or who think the most salient fact about a writer they dislike might be his sexual orientation…the party’s reliance on a resentment-based appeal has caused its policy apparatus to atrophy."

 

[signalmankenneth]

 

[007]

This quote from Josh Barro is the most accurate and concise assesment I've read about the current GOP.

"For two decades, the Republican party’s strategy to overcome its disadvantage on economic issues has been a cultural appeal to non-urban whites who feel threatened by social change. That is, the kind of people who think it’s an alarming trend that women are financially independent, or who think the most salient fact about a writer they dislike might be his sexual orientation…the party’s reliance on a resentment-based appeal has caused its policy apparatus to atrophy."

Accurate.
With the exeption of reality.
The reality is different to this attack.

 

[Howey]

Shut it Paulie.

 

[I'm Watermark]

I'd have to agree with that. While their economic policy is fairly similar, the parties do differ significantly in terms of social policy - with the GOP carrying on the tradition of white supremacy.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

I'd have to agree with that. While their economic policy is fairly similar, the parties do differ significantly in terms of social policy - with the GOP carrying on the tradition of white supremacy.

The rural angry white guys who are afraid of social change really, really bothers me. I grew up on a farm till I was 13 and lived in rural small towns till I was 25. Most of my extended family live in rural areas and when I go to visit I keep my mouth shut about politics and listen and what I hear is a vast resentment for and fear of urban people by rural people. When I listen to the radio traveling in the rural regions where most my family live and I hear the incredibly shrill and angry right wing talk radio and I know that their anger isn't really directed at liberals and minorities so much as they are angry at urban people and it just so happens that substantially more liberals and minorities live in urban areas.

What in turn makes me angry is how in the last 30 years I've witnessed how lopsidded and undemocratic our political representation has become. Today in most states essentially two thirds of our political representation at both the National and State level come from rural regions that represent approximately 1/3 of the population where as the urban/suburban populations, which represent 2/3 of the nations population only recieve about 1/3 of the political representation at both the National and State level......now that makes me angry and something has got to change.