10-26-2017, 11:05 AM
Interesting thread.
A year ago, I'd have said 'no way.' Now, maybe.
Each major party has — for most of the 20th & 21st centuries —has been a weird constant amalgamation of people. The largest in the GOP was pro-business and pro-Christianity; the largest in the Democrats was blue collar workers and minorities. Neither party's members really seemed a good fit, but that's how it shook out.
Both parties have effectively taken a hammer to those relationships over the last 30ish years.
Workers started shifting to the GOP as they got tired of real and imagined woes for seeing their paychecks and opportunities shrink. Minorities — with quotas and Rooney Rules and additional opportunities — weren't a political bedfellow. On the other side, Christians started realizing that maybe the GOP is good for making theocracies, but their version doesn't always run hand in hand with the Bible.
Which has us to where we are. Angry, jobless workers moving from long-time Democrat candidates and disappointed spiritual people tired of putting their faith in a handful of guys people who only see dollar signs.
So both parties are changing. And the ones moving to the GOP — the angry guy displaced from the upper middle class he grew up in — are more accepting of Trumpism. His brand of politics isn't conservative, in any regard. Which is OK to a significant chunk of the GOP as they aren't conservative either, they mainly just want something that isn't a Democrat.
I think this election will push more people to one side or the other. The GOP doesn't have the same makeup it did 40 years ago, and neither does the other side. What shakes out is going to be interesting, but probably won't be as definable as the Southern Coalition for at least another decade or so.
A year ago, I'd have said 'no way.' Now, maybe.
Each major party has — for most of the 20th & 21st centuries —has been a weird constant amalgamation of people. The largest in the GOP was pro-business and pro-Christianity; the largest in the Democrats was blue collar workers and minorities. Neither party's members really seemed a good fit, but that's how it shook out.
Both parties have effectively taken a hammer to those relationships over the last 30ish years.
Workers started shifting to the GOP as they got tired of real and imagined woes for seeing their paychecks and opportunities shrink. Minorities — with quotas and Rooney Rules and additional opportunities — weren't a political bedfellow. On the other side, Christians started realizing that maybe the GOP is good for making theocracies, but their version doesn't always run hand in hand with the Bible.
Which has us to where we are. Angry, jobless workers moving from long-time Democrat candidates and disappointed spiritual people tired of putting their faith in a handful of guys people who only see dollar signs.
So both parties are changing. And the ones moving to the GOP — the angry guy displaced from the upper middle class he grew up in — are more accepting of Trumpism. His brand of politics isn't conservative, in any regard. Which is OK to a significant chunk of the GOP as they aren't conservative either, they mainly just want something that isn't a Democrat.
I think this election will push more people to one side or the other. The GOP doesn't have the same makeup it did 40 years ago, and neither does the other side. What shakes out is going to be interesting, but probably won't be as definable as the Southern Coalition for at least another decade or so.
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