This analysis is far too simplistic and naive to pin it mainly on salesmanship. Reagan would have lost CA and the presidency with today’s demographic. Demographics is destiny. This could be good or bad depending on the cultural make-up of this new bloc of voters in the post Cold War era. Gay marriage would have been unheard of during Reagan’s time. Nor did we have the massive influx of immigration, legal and illegal, Asian and Hispanic, who don’t relate to America’s cultural and religious values. Much of Detroit is now “Little Kabul.”
In California, Orange County was the bastion of conservatism, but no more. Just look at what was once staunchly conservative Republican congressional districts (Palm Springs) going liberal. San Diego now has an openly gay Supervisor as is the Speaker of the California Assembly. No, this was a quiet revolution of culture that took place with the express if not tacit support of our RINOs and those chickens are coming home to roost with a squawking vengeance. Think Bushes’ “compassionate conservatism” and Simpson-Mazzoli amnesty among ideas to be blamed for this rot.
“No, this was a quiet revolution of culture that took place with the express if not tacit support of our RINOs and those chickens are coming home to roost with a squawking vengeance. Think Bushes’ “compassionate conservatism” and Simpson-Mazzoli amnesty among ideas to be blamed for this rot.”
This is the point I am trying to make. Conflict, attacking Liberals, and the creation and connection of aversive stimulus to Liberals, develops the amygdala.
Amygdala development has been shown to be associated with a Conservative ideology. So if you get weak-kneed guys like Bush running the party who won’t do the conflict thing becasue it’s not nice, the public’s amygdalae atrophies, and fails to develop, and they stay more Liberal in their neurological development and ideology.
Ramp up the conflict, and you actually develop a brain structure that sees it’s development is associated with Conservatism.
I’m just technically explaining why Republicans shouldn’t try to appeal to voters, so much as make Liberalsim repulse voters.
Again, it is a geeky piece designed to appeal to a narrow audience.