It’s really a variant on #1, but somewhat darker: the Democratic strategy for the last couple of decades, greatly intensified under Obama, has been to lock down minority votes through demagoguery of various victimization tropes, mainly immigration, but also gay marriage, abortion, etc., and then just wait for the white majority to die off. And that’s exactly where we are. I was at a loss to explain where the 2.5 million McCain voters that Romney didn’t get had gone to, until someone on another thread pointed out that a lot of them probably died. When you consider that the House and full control of the Senate will still not be in the hands of the Democrats until a few more million white people die off, and that the Dems control health care, it’s starts to look a little frightening to say the least.
Voting takes effort and people must be motivated to do it. Half don’t vote at all.
Motivation for Dems = fear.
1. Young women. Republicans want it back like the 50s. No
Equal pay. No abortion “choice”. Fear.
2. Blacks. Put y’all back in chains. 9 year old boy told he’d be back in the fields. No more free phones. On your own.
3. Latinos. Kick y’all out of the country. No amnesty. Leave and get in line.
4. Young in general. Another war (Iran). End student loans. Most are completely indoctrinated by tv movies daily show teachers universities.
5. Gays. Gay marriage was the carrot. DOMA was the fear.
By specifically targeting up these groups with fear Dems built a coalition Republicans can’t answer.
If we go for amnesty, that’s even more Dem voters on the roles.
If we abandon social issues (abortion, marriage defense), we lose evangelicals - a key base.
Romney got more votes than any of the other primary candidates would have. It wasn’t fraud. Was a better game from Dems and their street level local organizing beats ours. The tv money burn money should go to permanent local organizing. Need our own ACORN.
But, as Pat Buchanan said last night on Hannity, if you look like California in terms of demographics you have the same politics. We’re headed that way and really no way to stop it.