Carl Rove spoke a lie when he said: "Demography is destiny." Human nature and history prove him wrong. Regardless of the race, sophistication, or income of a group of people, if they are merciful and moral, if they honor their parents and honor life, their destiny looks good. If they are amoral or immoral, if they are cruel and murdering and envious, if they hold their parents and human life cheap, then their destiny is quite settled: they will eventually destroy themselves. Look at America today: to blame its decay on demography is wrong; it is happening because of bad morality.
Demography is pretense. Demography is pretense that politicians use to lump individuals into groups and then manipulate them. MORALITY is destiny.
cubanleaf, I read fast and I read a lot. I have read literally tens of thousands of comments by average apolitical Americans who take the time to spout their opinion anonymously on the comment boards at MSM news sites such as the LA Times, Salon magazine, Yahoo, etc. etc. etc. I know for a certain fact that THEIR numbers speak loudly and clearly: very nearly two to one, real on-the-ground Americans resent and loathe in this order: what they call "liberals," (that is the word most commonly used), Obama, and the bias of the mainstream media.
People have been assuring me that the US or the state of California "will not survive" this or that leftist president or governor since Jimmy Carter. Well, so far, California has survived Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown twice! {^)
My own eyes assure me that the MSM speaks only for itself and a minority of real Americans; my logic tells me that the left (even the Republican left ala Mississippi and Cochran) has to CHEAT for a reason. It has to cheat to put leftists in political power because most Americans despise "liberals." The MSM makes it look like there are enough Americans who support liberalism, but the reality is that liberals have to cheat because in fact, only a minority of actual Americans support liberalism.
God bless you and keep you and yours safe and well in Kentucky -- I've heard that it's beautiful country! As for Seattle ... meh!! {^)
I used to be a commercial real estate agent. We would often offer demographic reports to buyers or potential lessees. I see demographics as including culture and “morals”.
That’s the problem with the US.
And I finally saw a perfect analogy for a point I’ve been trying to succinctly make for decades: Liberals saying that this or that cultural change (18 year olds voting, homosexual marriage, etc.) aying, “see, everything’s fine. It won’t hurt us.”:
It’s like a 24 year old smoker saying, “see, I’ve been smoking 10 years and I didn’t get lung cancer. I have nothing to worry about.”