Freedom.
Self reliance.
Individualism.
American exceptionalism, the Constitution, ShiningCity on the Hill, brother.
You know, conservatism. It’s really not that hard to articulate it if you believe in it, and the GOP clearly doesn’t and hasn’t outside of Ronald Reagan, and it’s really easy for any honest person with a brain to see.
It’s the old why vote for democrats with an R by their name when you can vote for democrats with a D by their name? Something the GOP never learns and apparently much of their base never learns either.
I’m sure you have heard people ask why does’t the GOP go out and sell their ideas and tell people what they are going to do and what they believe in, have you not?
Well the answer is they don’t have any ideas, they don’t believe in anything, and they aren’t going to do anything outside of advancing the government agenda, which is exactly what they have been doing.
But I’m sure if we elect a bunch of republicans in 2016 they will finally get around to advancing even one item of the conservative agenda...NOT!
That doesn't resonate among most immigrants and minorities. They favor Big Government and more benefits. It is in their self-interest to vote for the Dems. Phyllis Schlafly laid this all out with documentation, graphs, etc. in her study, How Mass (Legal) Immigration Dooms a Conservative Republican Party If you are truly interested in the facts, you should read it.
Here are some factoids about immigrants in America:
In 2010, 23 percent of immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) lived in poverty, compared to 13.5 percent of natives and their children. Immigrants and their children accounted for one-fourth of all persons in poverty.
The children of immigrants account for one-third of all children in poverty.
In 2010, 36 percent of immigrant-headed households used at least one major welfare program (primarily food assistance and Medicaid) compared to 23 percent of native households.
n 2010, 29 percent of immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) lacked health insurance, compared to 13.8 percent of natives and their children.
New immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for two-thirds of the increase in the uninsured since 2000.
here are 10.4 million students from immigrant households in public schools, accounting for one in five public school students. Of these students, 78 percent speak a language other than English at home.
Overall, one in four public school students now speaks a language other than English at home.
Many immigrants make significant progress the longer they live in the country. However, on average even immigrants who have lived in the United States for 20 years have not come close to closing the gap with natives.
The poverty rate of adult immigrants who have lived in the United States for 20 years is 50 percent higher than that of adult natives.
The share of adult immigrants who have lived in the United States for 20 years who lack health insurance is twice that of adult natives.
Well the answer is they dont have any ideas, they dont believe in anything, and they arent going to do anything outside of advancing the government agenda, which is exactly what they have been doing. But Im sure if we elect a bunch of republicans in 2016 they will finally get around to advancing even one item of the conservative agenda...NOT!
So what's your point? Since both parties are essentially the same, what should real conservatives do and whom should they support? You want to keep, at least, the current level of legal immigration which means importing hundreds of thousands of future Dem voters annually. You want to hasten the demise of the country. Strange and incongruous.