(Future of the right) Not that a film critic knows best...

[phee]

I find myself agreeing with MOST of this... but not all.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/07/the_republicans_exit_history.html

[Troy Spiral (13)]

What I read,and hear is that the Republican Party is abandoning its hopes of speaking for a majority of Americans. It will still win elections. It controls the House. Perhaps it will elect the next President. But steadily and fatally it is moving out of history.

There are trigger issues in which the GOP no longer reflects the thinking of mainstream Americans of either party. In Tuesday's charade as the House put the Tea Party debt legislation to a vote, what we saw was an example of the kind of coalition voting common in Europe, where separate parties arrive at an agreement to govern. There are now essentially three parties in Congress: Democrats, Republicans, and the Tea Party. Reasonable Republicans with a sense of the possible do not subscribe to the Tea Party's implacable ideology, but they feel they must deal with it to placate its zealots. They are essentially in a coalition with a third party.

Its an interesting article. But, the Republican Party morphed from a left-wing party to a right wing party to survive (Abraham Lincoln was an early republican, back when they were left wing), seems like they would be smart enough to shift, even if its just more to the middle , if they stop getting votes.

The problem is I wonder what "the majority of Americans that VOTE think", not just "what do the majority of Americans think" the two numbers , I would not be surprised are very different.

The parties, proper have long been more fanatical than the "silent majority".

[darknight1]

Definitely an interesting article, but I don't see the Republicans exiting history at all. If anything, the voters will rapidly forget everything that happened throughout the entire argument in Congress over the debt ceiling and re-elect these sorry jackasses back into office. Even the term re-elect is questionable. Look at how many instances there have been where voters were disqualified because of their race (this has been an unspoken issue over the last two decades) or right wing idiots ordering all "hanging chad" ballots to be discounted...especially ballots that are cast for a liberal candidate. Does anyone remember the 2000 election or 2004 election? That's all you need to know right there. And the 2010 elections were no better. A small cadre of Tea Party fascists were easily able to sway millions of votes in their favor by indirectly playing on the racial biases of many voters from small towns. It's sickening. The Republicans are hell bent on destroying the President and the country simply because they want it their way - a rich white conservative back in power, and no one else. It makes you wonder if they're willing to drive us into another civil war because of their one side ideology.