[Azzurri]

If we look down the road a few years this country will be very different from what our parents knew or even what we know now. There will be millions of former illegals and what used to be the right wing Republican party will have pandered to them by being generous with their fellow citizens tax money. The country will have become socialist and pacifist, a sitting duck for the Islam fanatics, just as England was during the rise of Hitler. I just can’t imagine this changing without a catastrophic event.

When Reagan was elected in 1980, whites were 80% of the population. Today, it is down to 66% and falling rapidly. In about 20 years, it will be less than fifty. Those that have come in recent years do not have the same longing to be Americans that previous immigrant classes had. A new generation of big government welfare state Americans will see out our nation's declining years.

[Aria]

Why the Republican party is willingly allowing this is beyond me. The only thing I can think it that it’s all about corporate money.

[Fishrrman]

“When Reagan was elected in 1980, whites were 80% of the population. Today, it is down to 66% and falling rapidly. In about 20 years, it will be less than fifty. Those that have come in recent years do not have the same longing to be Americans that previous immigrant classes had. A new generation of big government welfare state Americans will see out our nation’s declining years.”

This says more about the future of conservatism in general, and the Republican party in particular, than most posts here. A good post.

The “color of politics” in America is changing, right along with the “colors of the population”. Once so changed, it will never return to the America “that was”. Indeed, that America - the “traditional America” that we older folks knew in our youth - will be gone, and gone forever.

In conversations with a friend, I proffered to him what I call “The Titanic Theory” about the future of America, along with my place in it as a conservative and “traditional” American who wants no part of the America that’s coming.

Recall that after it hit the iceberg, the Titanic sank “bow first”. It was obvious the ship was going down; yet it was also obvious that the stern was going to be the last place above the water line.

Personally, I live in a blue state that could already be considered “below the water line”. Once a stalwart traditional New England state known as “The land of steady habits”, Connecticut now elects only one Republican to Congress, and he will almost certainly be gone after this next election. I have personally witnessed my city go from “the number one city in America” (Money Magazine, 1985), to an illegal-infested hellhole (I was attacked on the street here last month, still recovering from a dislocated jaw). The house next to me has been tripled in size, the entire property paved over and converted into a “Mexican hotel”. There can be no “going back” here, to things that once were. To believe so is to be dreaming.

There is only one choice left: get out, to somewhere that WILL continue to resemble old America - if not forever, at least for a longer period of time (hopefully till the end of MY time), until there, too, slips below the waves.

There ARE places - entire states - that continue to remain livable, where conservatives and traditionally-minded Americans can live in peace, at least for a while. I’m considering my options after retirement (2 years hence).

But I see the future, and it ain’t great.

Having said that, I WILL vote for McCain if he gets the nomination. No apologies and no regrets. In my opinion (and I realize it’s only one person’s opinion), not to do so would be akin to opening a BIGGER hole to let the water into the sinking ship. I’ll keep a-bailin’, for now!

- John