[Gay State Conservative]

We must admit...*sadly* admit...that Reagan wouldn't stand a chance today.He was so dominant during his time because the overwhelming majority of Americans worked for a living and *wanted* to work for a living.

The Rat Party's long term strategy...begun in the mid-late 60's...has been very successful and has brought us very close to...or even beyond...a tipping point.That tipping point is the percentage of Americans who see themselves as victims,who see themselves as being entitled to other people's money.

Sorry,I calls 'em as I sees 'em.

[Dan in Wichita]

In the 1830's, Alexis deToqueville predicted America would eventually collapse due to the reason you just gave. I was hoping it would happen after my lifetime, but sadly, it is happening now.

It can still be reversed, but the reversal had better start soon.

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We must admit...*sadly* admit...that Reagan wouldn't stand a chance today.He was so dominant during his time because the overwhelming majority of Americans worked for a living and *wanted* to work for a living.

Pretty much. People went through common experiences of Depression, World War, Cold War, and they saw the changes in the 60s and 70s threatening what they'd worked and saved to create.

Nowadays people don't have that common cultural background and sense of shared values. Forty or fifty years on, one can't keep harping on the 60s and the 70s, and feelings about what's happened in recent years aren't anywhere near as monolithic as the rejection of Carter and 70s liberalism was.

The idea of Middle America versus East Coast and West Coast elites doesn't fly as well today as it once did. Many people whose parents voted for Reagan don't see Republicans as the default American option but as another player in the political game whose values they don't always share.