Republicans face a hostile media and hostile entertainment establishment. We are always swimming against the tide of elite opinion and we are always going to be painted as troglodytes. That is not likely to change and it makes our job difficult.
Saying that, demographic changes are what they are. Just look at the them and realize what they imply just a few years down the road. We may not even be able to win Texas, Arizona and perhaps others not long from now. I don’t believe caving on things like immigration is the answer, but we need to do a better job of talking to Hispanics, Asians, etc. We just have to communicate better with them and find a way to focus on the issues that will most drive them to vote for our candidates.
And of the north east and west coast. Assuming we are fighting for an ever dwindling share of white voters, we are going to need to flip states like NH, Oregon, maybe Washington, etc. Right now we start off elections assuming writing them off. We can win more of these people over talking about fiscal issues than social ones, so that is where our focus should be in those places.
We just can’t keep going the way we are. Demographically we are finished if we do. Of course we don’t give in on principles, but we do need to find a better way to communicate with these groups and emphasize issues that will help move them to vote for us. Right now we, as a party, are simply writing off way too much of the population.
Damned right we need to do a better job. Sell them on the founding principles and on what America stands for: God-given Life and Liberty and opportunity for all!! America is head and shoulders above all other nations and it’s exactly because we’re free!! And we recognize God’s gifts of Life and Liberty for all and that the government cannot deprive us of God or His gifts! Socialism, atheism, abortionism, homosexualism, global baloneyism, etc, are all destructive paths and lead to the certain death of freedom and death of the nation. Flip-flopping, pandering, RINO squishes who do not believe this in their hearts cannot sell it. Romney was a used car salesman trying to sell foreign (to him) ideas. Reagan was a straight shooting conservative who loved and lived for God and Liberty and could communicate it to the masses!!
Media and entertainment? Really?
How about WORK OR STARVE? The federal government has no Constitutional or moral authority to take my money and give it to someone else.
We (the people) have allowed this to go on for far too long. Now we have people (allegedly on our side) demanding a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. What an incredibly stupid idea that is... If our government were held to it’s Constitutional limits, no balanced-budget amendment would be necessary. (and no term-limits either)
When we (the people) stop allowing politicians to buy votes using the public treasury, this insanity will cease, but not one second sooner. No political party is going to do it for us, and I assure you that the corruptocrats will never stop until they’re forced to do so. Demographics don’t matter. Red states & Blue states don’t matter.
The only thing that matters now, or ever did matter, is that the power is truly in the hands of the people.
We might begin at the state level, by shutting off the money spigot. Or we might go the “torches and pitchforks” route. Or we can wait for the inevitable collapse...
Either way, it’s not coming back without a major restructuring, initiated by the citizens.