Posted on 11/16/2014 10:03:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
DEMOGRAPHICS is not enough.
For years now, it’s been an article of faith among Democrats that the future belongs to them, thanks to the country’s changing demographic mix. The rising percentage of voters who are women, Americans of color and especially Latinos were always about to turn the country deep “blue.”
I never believed this — largely because I have been hearing it since 1971. That was the year the 26th Amendment passed, lowering the voting age to 18. Democrats had already been the dominant political party since the 1930s, and now with young people getting the vote, a permanent Democratic majority was guaranteed, right?
The future failed to arrive on time again this fall. Democrats lost all over America, and they lost big, by much wider margins than predicted. They lost statewide races in the Midwest where Democrats have won repeatedly in presidential elections for more than 20 years. They lost in races against radical right-wing Republicans they might have been expected to defeat, like Sam Brownback in Kansas and Paul R. LePage in Maine.
Nor was this month’s election an anomaly. It was the third disastrous midterm for Democrats in the past 20 years. The party suffered similar or even worse losses at all levels of government in 1994 and 2010, along with a lesser catastrophe in 2002. It now holds fewer elected offices at both the federal and state level than it has at any time since the 1920s.
Democratic tacticians maintain that things will be different in 2016, when their base will go to the polls in greater numbers, and when demographics — again — will render the country less white, more Latin and more female. They blame this latest meltdown on terrible candidates, administration flubs and foreign crises....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
It doesn't work quite like that in practice, and it is the nemesis of progressive political theorists everywhere. There are other classes that also come into play: how about someone whose major class identification is "American"? And who votes in accordance with her or his appreciation of what is best for the country, not what is best for whatever oppressed class the progressive theorists could place her or him in? Shocking stuff! Either that individual is plagued by false class consciousness and in need of political enlightenment...or the proggies are. I'm betting on the latter because the evidence is everywhere.
Maybe it is time to change their name again.
Progressive.
Liberal.
Progressive.
Name to be determined that will fool the most people.
Call the global warming people they are good at name changes.
Nice sounding rah rah at the end, but the author only offered platitudes.
When the author starts out calling Sam Brownback and Paul LePage “Right Wing Radicals” I know that it’s not going to be a fair article and I stop reading..
No one ever calls out Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton for being “Radical Leftwing Marxist Revolutionaries”!!?
Government is generational. We are witnessing the end of the ‘60s and ‘70s “activist” generation grown to power.
Hot on their heels are ‘80s kids whose world view was formed in the Reagan era.
Some people grow up and become Republicans. Some people never outgrow their childhood and remain Democrats.
America has no future with the Democrats!
The democrats should have reduced the age to 5. That was their strategic mistake.
There were something like 80 million Baby Boomers. The Reagan kids you speak of are the Xers, only about 35 million of us.
Then there are another 80 million or so Millenials. Who are post-Reagan and grew up under Clinton and Bush, and came of political age with Obama. They’re, luckily, starting to show some disillusionment with the hope n change thing, since they’ve been on the short end of the stick. Overall they’re not really traditionally Conservative, but are trending somewhat Classical Liberal and away from Progressive Liberal.
The problem with the biological solution is that it is working on all of us all the time.
They lost statewide races in the Midwest where Democrats have won repeatedly in presidential elections for more than 20 years.
They lost in races against radical right-wing Republicans they might have been expected to defeat
Seems to me that the dims are suffering from climate change.
Current data shows that global warming/climate change is, like everything dim, ia a lie
The expected global cooling , if we are lucky, will reverse in 2030...otherwise expect another 400 year long mini ice age
Getting back to the dims ....if we are unlucky their winter of discontent will terminate in 2030.....
....and fortunate if it lasts longer.
Good observation!
So, according to Baker the Dims lost because they were not liberal enough.
That’s why the Democrats need those 5 million illegal aliens that Obama is about to extend amnesty to. Five million Democrat votes in 2016. To be sure, a large proportion of them are in states like California which are a lock for the Democrat Presidential nominee anyway.
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