A view I've talked about with increasing frequency as of late is, what I sincerely hope to be viewing at the moment: the demise and dissolution of the Republican party in America.
From where I'm standing, it appears that without some large-scale restructuring of the party, the Republicans are caught between a rock and a dumb place, and this will provide increasingly smaller returns for their investment until they are (finally) regulated to a position of being mute, irrelevant, and shuffled from the political state. Or something like that. The hysteric thrashing of the Tea Party jerkoffs provides a strong signal that some for of change is required within, but my money is solidly behind the theory that being louder and more crass is not a winning combination. Cannibalizing the party with ideological purity tests where the losers are thrown out for being insufficiently vile isn't going to bring more voters into the big tent. Rather than win a race against a Democrat to pick up a seat, a vocal chunk of the right wing is now getting people ostensibly on their side tossed out of office, and replaced with rabies-infested lunatics.
This strongly mirrors the "Red Queen" scenario oft-cited by people who do not understand evolutionary biology, and which we get to view whenever a longstanding institution is sufficiently threatened to the point where the goons in charge lose their fucking minds and do whatever it takes to "win" by destroying an opponent, rather than relying on their own merit. I've seen first-hand evidence of the tactics the right now must resort to: collecting donations for "progressive causes" that are then funneled to the NRA, misrepresenting their causes in attempts to steal credibility, and just outright fucking lying to everyone who can hear them. These are not methods employed by an organization that expects to win on the strength of its ideas.
This is a process that is dreary and familiar to science, to the point where a new theory is generally accepted once all of the old guard has had the common courtesy to finally just die off, and a new generation grows up unhampered by the follies of their elders' viewpoints.
Or, to put it more bluntly: stupid fuckers are going to keep being stupid fuckers, and will fight to the bitter end to defend their backwards ideas. They money shot from that article, by the way is the following: "Thurmond never explicitly renounced his earlier views on racial segregation. [...] 'When Strom Thurmond ran for president, [Mississippi] voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either.' Lott was ousted as Senate Majority Leader." Usually, you just have to wait for the old sons of bitches to die. They ain't gonna see reason.
Seeing more vocal screeds and overly dramatic action by an increasingly smaller population of 'conservatives' looks to me very much like the final collapse of a wounded beast thrashing at anything within reach.
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