The first requirement for being a Democrat is a suspension of reality.LOL Now on that, I agree.
I actually think that by the time people get into their 40s, you pretty much aren't going to get them to change parties unless they are Jim Jeffords.
The way to change prospects is with youth. They vote more and more the older they get. So we just probably have to figure out a way to get 'em young.
The Democrats recognized that. That is why they took over public education and we now have a dumbed down America incapable of making rational decisions on many fronts. I hope you will review the numbers on the Cato web site and the many other web sites that provide financial data that will allow you to compute for yourself the retirement curves for future generations of America in a financial world with a declining dollar and a global economy operating at lower levels than most people who still believe the bull market of the late nineties is coming back and going to last forever. Depression is a far more likely event than a return to the bull market from 1995-2000. Stagflation is a far more likely scenario until the problems begin really maturing from 2008 and on into 2012 and beyond. There simply isn't time to grow generations of informed voters.
I am trying to wield a 2x4 between the eyes of the participants on FreeRepublic. The normal tendency is to think things are going to go on forever like they always have in the past and that everything is going to work out in the end. This time it's different. Our tomorrows are actually numbered. And there aren't that many of them. If we can get the attention of Freepers, maybe we can get the attention of the Republicans in Congress and some of the leaders in the administration. The President may think that getting along with Democrats and compassionate conservatism are good political debating topics, but in truth they are losers. And they are awful policy. The very last thing we want to do is get along with Democrats. Democrats are to be defeated in every way on every issue all the time. When Democrats win compromises on anything, we are moving in the wrong direction. And we have no more room to move in their direction. We cannot afford to move any direction, but to the right. And the sooner we take this stand and the more often we can shout and explain it to the people, the more likely they are to eventually understand. No more Compromises. If our leaders cave, the public will perceive this as an admission that the Democrats are right or that the Democrat's little small incremental steps to socialism are OK. If Freepers can't grasp these concepts, then we are in real trouble.