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What really killed the GOP in California? Well the GOP is not technically dead but they are marginalized. What really did the trick? Demographics. It's as simple as that. When you have a FANTASTIC influx of immigrants (both legal & illegal) you have a change in the political dynamics. Most of the newcomers are poor and uneducated. They are the types who are most likely to want services from government that they don't have to pay for. It's in their nature. They are tailor made Democrats.

It takes a special type of person to be a free market capitalist with faith in individual rights and limited government. Just because you want a better live and you are a relatively hard worker doesn't mean you have the political instincts to be a citizen of a free republic. These folks are easy picking for the RATS and this is why nothing is done to reform immigration policy. The Democrats like the policy because it makes them the majority party. Without the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, Obama could NEVER have been elected. Think about it.

Most people don't want to face up to it but this is the situation which we face today. California probably won't be part of the United States in another 20-30 years. It pretty much a done deal at this point. They smart people know it at least most of them. Demographics is destiny and our destiny was sealed in 1965.

Thanks Democrats.

Without the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, Obama could NEVER have been elected.

Which did jack squat as far as Mexican immigration is concerned. Mexicans were not included under the "national origins quotas." The repeal of the 1965 laws was intended to benefit southern and eastern Europeans who were severley restricted under the 1924 laws. From 1965-late 1970s, most of the newcomers were from places like Greece and Portugal. Since the late 1970s, the biggest beneficiaries have been Chinese, Korean, Indian, Filipino, and various African countries.

The illegal Mexicans and Central Americans have swarmed in here due to lack of enforcement of immigration laws on our southern border. The 1965 law is irrelevant in that case.

Regarding demographics, indeed that is the bulk of the problem. More confounding, is the way Baby Bush flooded California with immigrants for 8 years. I can understand Clinton building his liberal base that way, but Baby Bush sold out the future of the Republican Party to provide a short term cheap labor pool for his buddies to get rich with. Thanks, Jorge Bush!

Democrat registration stands at 43% while Republican registration is 33%.

The democrats have 30% more voters right off the top than the Republicans do. I repeat! DEMOCRATS HAVE 4 VOTERS FOR EVERY 3 REPUBLICAN VOTERS.

The fix is in. It’s over. And the children are being brainwashed in schools to embrace homosexuality, accept abortion, and save the environment at all cost. Not exactly a prescription for future Republican registration.

We California Conservatives are doomed.

OK, there is one slim chance... If the coming Depression gets bad enough, it is not impossible that the Republicans could successfully reveal how the socialist Democrats bankrupted California. Somehow, I doubt that. Not only are they pissing up a rope with a media that is an arm of the DNC, but it would take guts, resolve and daring to make the argument. Our Republican wimps are not up to the task of hitting below the belt, so they’ll roll over and play dead again.

I go back to my initial conclusion. We are so screwed.