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Republican Soul-Searching in Five Minutes.

There's a lot to learn about politics from the GOP and the details of how they reform, but the gist of the matter seems pretty clear.



After the election, I was half-interested in the discussions around the Republican party. Should they become moderate? Will they become more conservative? How will they use the internet? Blah blah blah. There's a lot to learn about politics from the Republicans and the details of how they reform, but the general gist of the matter seems pretty clear.

The GOP is going to do is futz around for awhile with the fake moderate versus conservative argument and then eventually find a way to tap into the newly emergent overt racism. It may happen in 2010, and it's impossible to predict whether the issues will be framed around 'law and order' as the millions of unemployed young people inevitably do what young people do when they are bored and disempowered in a recession, or some sort of stabbed in the back narrative around Iraq or Afghanistan, or some new set of issues focused on the fallout from this very scary financial crisis. Whatever happens the party will reorganize on the internet and that's going to seem really cool and innovative and counter-intuitive except that it will be perfectly normal for a political party to reorganize using a culture's mainstream medium for organizing, which is the internet. The right already did it once, with Drudge and the Free Republic in the 1990s.



The animus for the new Republicans, though, will not be fake conservative principles like low taxes, a strong military, and family values, because Republicans like taxes on non-rich people, they like hollowing out the military, and the GOP leadership is full of sexually tortured souls. It's going to be racism, as it always has been. There, soul-searching over. And this blog post only took you five minutes to read, which is probably a bit shorter than it will take for the Republicans to find and manufacture millions of new right-wing dog whistles.

Oh, and my advice for those Republicans who don't have the heart to reform the party along these lines is to leave the party. Join us. You'll like it.

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The GOP is going to do is futz around for awhile with the fake moderate versus conservative argument and then eventually find a way to tap into the newly emergent overt racism. It may happen in 2010, and it's impossible to predict whether the issues will be framed around 'law and order' as the millions of unemployed young people inevitably do what young people do when they are bored and disempowered in a recession


Still playing the race card?And I would be considered a young person.So to help my party out can I go loot and riot and blame it on the recession?
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That's my plan, but my next big "zero" birthday will start with a six. So my rioting will be somewhat subdued. When I loot the liquor store I'll be taking 18 year old scotch. I'll drink it with my friends who are, strangely enough, of several different races, while we watch the proceedings, with fond recollection of the sixties, on my big-screen tv set.

I am very confused.You have friends who aren't protestant anglo-saxon caucasian,so that leads me to believe you must be a democrat.But you have a big screen,so you must be an evil rich republican.Ooooh!I know.Your next birthday will come after Jan.20 when Obama "spreads the wealth around.
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The GOP is going to do is futz around for awhile with the fake moderate versus conservative argument and then eventually find a way to tap into the newly emergent overt racism. It may happen in 2010, and it's impossible to predict whether the issues will be framed around 'law and order' as the millions of unemployed young people inevitably do what young people do when they are bored and disempowered in a recession


Still playing the race card?And I would be considered a young person.So to help my party out can I go loot and riot and blame it on the recession?




Hey, no one is playing the race card on this end dude. read the the article and tell me why you disargee, and I will tell you what I think. Just stay away from, what right wingers are so good at, attacking the poster.
Since I'm not caucasian (Athabascan Indian) I have a token white person hang around my house, mostly to bring drinks. If she reads this, of course, I'm a dead man. I am socially liberal, a foreign policy conservative, and fiscally libertarian. Often, I am very confused.

I fear the spread of wealth will be away from me after Mr. Obama is sworn in. I recall reading the postings about the incentive payout some months ago and noted the glee of those who received a check. I was not in that select group. So I may have to go back to tepee living, but since I'm accustomed to my comforts, it may be in a motor home. I'm not even quite sure how to get to the reservation; perhaps I can put the location into my GPS. I'm nearing retirement age, and my 401k has taken such a massive hit, and continues to diminish in value following the election.

Perhaps sanity will regain its hold on the American body politic; after the shenanigans of the last campaign I doubt civility will ever again rear its head. But my alcohol-swilling, cigar-smoking, football watching Rainbow Coalition will take it all in stride. We survived Viet Nam, hypertension, Carter, Disco, and the Arab Oil Embargo; we can survive anything.
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Since I'm not caucasian (Athabascan Indian) I have a token white person hang around my house, mostly to bring drinks. If she reads this, of course, I'm a dead man. I am socially liberal, a foreign policy conservative, and fiscally libertarian. Often, I am very confused

I wish I had of known that ahead of time.After all,I'm a conservative.I would never have struck a conversation with you if I'd known you werent 100 percent caucasian.I'm gonna have to go to my fundamentalist church full of rich republican scumbags to pray for forgiveness and wash myself clean.
I think this says it all and it is from the article.

''The animus for the new Republicans, though, will not be fake conservative principles like low taxes, a strong military, and family values, because Republicans like taxes on non-rich people, they like hollowing out the military, and the GOP leadership is full of sexually tortured souls. It's going to be racism, as it always has been. There, soul-searching over. And this blog post only took you five minutes to read, which is probably a bit shorter than it will take for the Republicans to find and manufacture millions of new right-wing dog whistles.''
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Originally posted by Backwoods:
I wish I had of known that ahead of time.After all,I'm a conservative.I would never have struck a conversation with you if I'd known you werent 100 percent caucasian.I'm gonna have to go to my fundamentalist church full of rich republican scumbags to pray for forgiveness and wash myself clean.


It's perfectly okay for us to communicate online. However, if I come to your house, I have to go to the back door. It's been scientifically proven that cross-racial contamination cannot be spread through the internet.
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It's perfectly okay for us to communicate online. However, if I come to your house, I have to go to the back door. It's been scientifically proven that cross-racial contamination cannot be spread through the internet.


Talk about a sigh of releif.I just hope the leader of my Klan chapter don't find out.I'd never be able to face him at church again.

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