You are not selling cars or toothpaste. You are selling a political philosophy that more and more Americans reject. This isn't the same country as 1970 when one in 21 was foreign born compared to one in 8 today. In 1970 about 89% of the population were non-Hispanic whites compared to 66% today. CA today is what America will look like by 2050. How many ads will convince CA to go Rep? In fact, by 2050 there may be no Reps in CA's congressional delegation as the number of CA Reps in Congress continues to decline.
I see the same thing happening in VA, now a purple state on its way to being a blue state. 30% of the population of Fairfax County, the largest in the state is now foreign born. When Kerry won Fairfax County in 2004, it was the first time 40 years that had occurred. Obama racked up even larger margins of victory as the county becomes more and more Dem despite being one of the three richest counties in America.
Young people are going to bear the brunt of the horrible policies initiated by Obama & the left. Every time a new Obamacare tax goes into effect, we need to broadcast that fact. Every time a Dem asks for new taxes, we need to make it known. Republicans STILL don’t know how to fight. As someone else said on this thread, they fight dirty. We need to go after them. Instead we’re polite & we let them get away quite literally with murdering our economy.
We have an aging population with 10,000 people retiring daily and will continue to do so for the next 20 years. By 2030 one in five will be 65 or older, twice what it is now. They will become more and more dependent on government services as it is apparent that a large majority of Americans have not prepared for retirement. They also vote in larger numbers than the young. And don't forget that the young are becoming more and more comprised of minorities.
Sooner or later (hopefully sooner) the young will realize that they are the ones who will pay for it.
The young are products of our liberal education system. They don't see the US in the same way as the rest of us. They are more liberal socially and are willing to trade security for personal liberties, especially young single women. With out of wedlock birthrates for blacks at 71% and Hispanics at 50% coupled with huge school drop out rates, we are creating a huge and growing permanent underclass that will depend on Big Government to take care of them. They will vote Democrat.
The only fly in your ointment is to believe that the dems are non-narcissistic and will never step on their own members which they will.(and if you thought that had a double meaning you were right!)
They always go too far and self-destruct. To believe that won’t happen is to ignore history.
Yes, all of your points are valid. We have an almost impossible task ahead. But the left has been undermining us for decades, & we haven’t been paying attention. It will probably take decades to bring it back in the other direction. Is it worth the effort? I think so, & I’m going to try.
Unless the Dems sweep the house in 2014 & Hillary wins in 2016. Then I’m moving to Belize...
“The young are products of our liberal education system. “
The communists in Eastern Europe did this successfully. In Russia you ended up with an Alcoholism problem due to some of this crap.
This same stuff is going on today in Argentina and Venezuela. Some.
By eliminating the Federal Education department, the Conservative movement could begin to recover from the last forty years of Nixon’s Foley.
It boils down to a choice for the Republicans:
1. They are going to have to out-Santa Santa Obama with free stuff,
or
2. They are going to have to convince a majority of the recipients of Santa Obama’s free stuff that there is no free lunch; and someone, somewhere, sometime is going to end up paying the bill for all of that Santa Obama free stuff. The bill will likely go to the current recipients’ children and grandchildren.
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Which one CAN the Republicans sell? Which one WILL the Republicans try to sell?