by Fred Krueger
Doctors pronounce death when their patient ceases brain activity and in that sense, I suppose we could say the GOP in California died years ago. But, in this bizarre world of politics technical death has a whole other half-life. We know dead people often vote and brain-dead legislators do too! No surprise there. And these brain dead politicians are frequently re-elected! We also know that dead beats live off your tax dollars. Yes, the dead are prolific partakers in California politics. If you consider these folks often join forces with those I call mouth-breathers, (they resemble the walking dead) then by their sheer force of numbers they control everything because the conservative is simply overwhelmed.
Die hard Republicans have been loath to admit this ugly truth. But, enough of you know their party is going the way of the Wooly Mammoth. Hey, maybe this should be the new symbol instead of the African elephant, it's certainly more appropriate given the times.
Polls show in the 1970's that fully 51% or more of all voters strongly opposed abortion, but by the early 2000's over 70% supported a mother's choice, as opposed to a right to life. There's that death thing again, which may explain in part why the right considers California a dying state. We certainly have our share of aborted babies.
The left of course doesn't consider California a dying state at all, it's a utopia-bound state that just happens to be in need of more tax revenues. They (the left) believe that given enough taxation all will be well! Schools will turn out honor students, prisons will turn out productive members of society, the air will be cleaner and even global warming will be reversed...IF ONLY we only had enough tax revenue. Government...the solution for what ails you.
Back in the besieged GOP camp, their camp fire is all but burned out. They've been unable to compete with dems when it comes to winning over voters. They've failed to come up with any inspired ideas like the dems, "Let us steal from the rich and give to the poor - Vote Democrat!" Yes, it's been hard to compete with that populist appeal!
The transition from a once grand old party to something akin to a lowly 3rd party in a state they once built that rivaled the best in the world has caused many republicans to defect to re-register as an independent. The logic is simple: Their party failed them, and they can't stand to be a Democrat. So, if you can't beat em and you can't join em, then re-register as an independent! Then you will at least escape some of the blame going around these days. After all, when failure happens - fingers point and there is a lot of finger pointing going on right now, especially within the GOP ranks. Being an independent gives you cover from all that!
The republican leadership says in their ever optimistic rah-rah speeches, now is the time to fight back! I think the time to fight back came and went all too quietly about 20 years ago. That was when we still had a chance of passing reform legislation. It was just before rabid, foaming at the mouth, liberals and their illegal alien pals from Mexico outnumbered us 10 to 1. Unfortunately, we didn't act in time and now the democratic party controls everything and we're the party on the outside looking in. Maybe the best thing to do now is simply abandon ship? Think what would happen if we retreated en mass to greener pastures and we take know how and our money with us! Let the liberals have what's left of California and let this tragic end of a once great society be a warning to other states: See this state, this is your future unless you act! This is what happens when you swill the liberal Kool-Aid and try to make a living by taxing the rich! That's not a living that will ever have a good ending! Fight back now or suffer the fate of this dead broke, crime ridden, welfare state called California.
What really killed the GOP in California? Well the GOP is not technically dead but they are marginalized. What really did the trick? Demographics. It's as simple as that. When you have a FANTASTIC influx of immigrants (both legal & illegal) you have a change in the political dynamics. Most of the newcomers are poor and uneducated. They are the types who are most likely to want services from government that they don't have to pay for. It's in their nature. They are tailor made Democrats.
It takes a special type of person to be a free market capitalist with faith in individual rights and limited government. Just because you want a better live and you are a relatively hard worker doesn't mean you have the political instincts to be a citizen of a free republic. These folks are easy picking for the RATS and this is why nothing is done to reform immigration policy. The Democrats like the policy because it makes them the majority party. Without the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, Obama could NEVER have been elected. Think about it.
Most people don't want to face up to it but this is the situation which we face today. California probably won't be part of the United States in another 20-30 years. It pretty much a done deal at this point. They smart people know it at least most of them. Demographics is destiny and our destiny was sealed in 1965.
Thanks Democrats.
Without the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, Obama could NEVER have been elected.
Which did jack squat as far as Mexican immigration is concerned. Mexicans were not included under the "national origins quotas." The repeal of the 1965 laws was intended to benefit southern and eastern Europeans who were severley restricted under the 1924 laws. From 1965-late 1970s, most of the newcomers were from places like Greece and Portugal. Since the late 1970s, the biggest beneficiaries have been Chinese, Korean, Indian, Filipino, and various African countries.
The illegal Mexicans and Central Americans have swarmed in here due to lack of enforcement of immigration laws on our southern border. The 1965 law is irrelevant in that case.
Such a wealth of seething resentment ... from immigrants themselves. Creepy.
I didn't notice any seething going on. Pretty much a candid narrative.
Ever wonder, if the GOP is such a dead horse, why do the left (and sadly some of our own) spend so much time flogging it?
This post is becoming boringly typical lately. The left hates our ideals and our ability to see that their emperor has no clothes so they try to convince the world we are dead and not worth listening too. Then you have the RINOs in our own party who like lower taxes but want to be able to smoke pot and pay for sex with teenagers. All just wishing the GOP would go away and quit making them feel guilty.
But we won't, and you can't make us.
Conservatism may be stategically at a disadvantage in California, but we are far from beaten. Prop 8 passed here with 30% of the same voters who voted for Obama. Those new immigrant voters who, at the moment, think the democrats are the answer will not feel that way for long when the jobs they came here for are destroyed at the altar of environmental extremism. California is the home of Proposition 13, and for all their bluster, I've yet to see the liberals try to take it on in the polls.
I've seen a lot of movement from conservatives lately, and the majority of them know that the GOP is still their best chance to save our country. The last time I've seen this much energy out there we took Congress after a 40 year stint of failed liberal policies.
The GOP's platform can be boiled down into three ideals. Family, Faith, and Freedom. For those who wish to see us dead, first tell me which of those ideals you want to forcefully strip from the American people? It's easy to be a quitter and criticize us from the sidelines, but do you have the courage to stand with us and help save our country?
You can vote Republican, and get flawed conservatives who don't always live up to their ideals, or you can vote democrat and get dysfunctional socialists whose idea of health reform is giving your granparents pain meds to help them die.
There are many reasons we could point to as to why the California Republican party is dead. I would have to say that a big reason is the difference in the mentality of most Californians and that of most Republican voters. I believe the mentality of most Californians brought this state to its abysmal place in history. Most people are too foolish or lack the courage to face up to the facts that California is toast, and the voters will never give the Republicans a chance to change things for the better.
In California we have the massive waves of third world people. Yes third world people can be brought up to higher levels, IF they are in a relatively small minority and immersed in a first world culture. It doesn't take a genius to understand this isn't the situation in California today. There is no way to have a first world country (or state) with a majority of people who have a third world mentality. Well this third world mentality wants a government to give them what it is they refuse to work for, and they will continually vote for the politician that offers that which they desire. Look at South America, they continually fall prey to the slick snake oil salesmen politician.
Unfortunately, along with the demise of the Republican party, California itself has passed the point of no return. It will not recover because it can't recover. The number of people who produce less wealth than what they consume now outnumber those who produce more wealth than what they consume. All the economic churning and the phony economics the liberals squirt out won't change this basic fact, and changing control from the Democrats to the Republicans will not reverse the course. Mainly because, If the Republicans did gain control they would not sacrifice their new gained power to do what they must. Thus the Republican voters themselves would just stay home as they have proven to do time and time again when Republicans act as Democrats.
So the unproductive members of society will continue to be unproductive and just as history has proven time and time again, a civilization that does not produce more than they give away will inevitably crumble from within. The question that remains is how fast this decline will happen, because the more the unproductive and counter productive people outnumber the productive people the faster the decline will happen.
As I said the decline of the Republican party mirrors that of the state and the state is going down fast. It's my opinion that those who think California can be turned around are the dreamers. I have stated for ten years that California was lost, and time has only proven me right. Besides the reason I give about the changing of the human demographics, California has been controlled by politicians who think differently then they did in the past. Even the Republicans will argue that they can offer free gifts for your vote, albeit slower and less in quantity, but they still offer.
We are also governed by politicians who have different goals in mind for the use of our tax dollars than they did in past generations. In the old days, politicians still believed in building things like highways, water systems, educational facilities, power plants, water reservoirs, etc. etc, etc. They also believed in proven technology like the combustible engines, hydroelectricity, and nuclear energy. However, today's politicians write paychecks, give handouts, tax the crap out of any productive private sector enterprise, regulate proven technologies out of existence and build lavish retirements for themselves. All the while giving more and more credence to the fringe groups that worship the creation over the Creator. Someone name me one major productive project undertaken during the reign of the modern Metro/Collectivist politician in California, Democrat or Republican. Allow me to state that we do have the politicians we the people vote into office.
I remember when I was taking my seminary classes, everyone wanted to know what everyone else thought of the end times. The biggest question was what kind of One World government would we be forced to live under before Christ returned. Many were shocked when I stated that the One World government would be a Socialist government. I also said it would be a government that we the people would put in place. See, Christ will not return because the government we live under has made us bad. Christ will return because men are bad, and the government we put in place will be a government that lets us be as bad as we want to be. And a government that gives us everything we want, will be a government like the Europeans have, a government that has made evil good, and good evil.
That my friends is not going to ever happen under a conservative Republican government.
Steve, I believe that most Republicans (who have not defected to being independants) talk about the end of the Republican party as part of a mourning process. It is just an extention of their frustration, that's all. Which is why I think it is a big mistake to categorize them as bad, as mere Rino's because they feel their party has been crushed by the population demographics that no longer favor their party politics.
The Republican Party is not blameless either. They could have come up with better ideas and better candidates 20 years ago before all was lost. Now it's too late and they have no power to do anything in the legislature, they are a nuisance to dems, but not much more.
Too bad, but that's about the size of it.
"Then you have the RINOs in our own party who like lower taxes but want to be able to smoke pot and pay for sex with teenagers"
This sentence pretty much sums up why your party is dying. Comparing smoking pot, which harms no one, to teenage prostitution? The moral framework of the Republican party is antiquated, tribal, and backwards. Until you guys start actually analyzing moral issues rather than relying on tradition to tell you what's right and wrong, you will keep digging your hole and continue becoming more and more unpopular and irrelevant.
You say the Republican platform is "Family, Faith, Freedom," but two out of three of those things are none of your dang business. Focus on that last word and your numbers will go up. If you continue to try and control people's family life and religion, then you're undermining your stance on freedom from government intervention and sabotaging your own party.
And I know you're all skeptical as to why a liberal would want to give you good advice, but really, I do see your points on economic policy and I would like us to have an actual debate about that. But so many people are finding it hard to take anything you people say seriously when you are also the same people burning senators in effigy, demanding a birth certificate after you've already been shown it, only pointing out racism when it comes from a minority, and telling us that homosexuality is a disease. Learn to pick your battles and then maybe people will start to listen.
"The GOP's platform can be boiled down into three ideals. Family, Faith, and Freedom."
Hmmmm? Sure you don't mean Patriarchy, Christianity and NO GD TAXES! I feel for ya. Those days are just gone.
I had occasion recently to go find out just exactly what a reactionary is: relating to, marked by ... a tendency toward a former and usually outmoded political or social order or policy. This fit's OneVike to a "T". But that the Butte County Republican Party Chair should exhibit such tendencies.
The GOP may very well be finished, and not just in California, either.
K,
So sorry if I touched a nerve there. It's been my experience that those who partake often agree with the rest of the socially liberal rhetoric.
Why would you think that the GOP has no place advocating for family and faith? Families are the building block of our society, faith is the bedrock our families stay strong upon. Would you prefer that families and faith be banned from society? That does seem to be the end result of leftist policy.
Libby, you have no place badmouthing the GOP values either. 50 years of the welfare state have wiped out family values in our society, leaving us with generations of illiterate criminals.
All children deserve a married father and mother. To use government policy to encourage the breakup of the traditional family, as liberal welfare policies most certainly did, is sadistic and cruel. But it creates a whole lot of uneducated dependants who always vote democrat, right? And should they ever climb up and go to college, there's scarce few jobs awaiting them as jobs are now sacrificed on the environmental altar.
As for taxes, I'm not for zero percent taxation. But right now the government takes more than its fair share from the people to keep up its unsustainable spending. Anyone who can still afford their tax bills should thank the GOP for keeping the rates as low as they have.
And one more thing, our values are not outmoded. Freedom may take courage but it will always be in style. No matter how many of us Obama labels as domestic terrorists, no matter how many of our grandparents he euthanizes, you will never crush the human desire to be free.
"To use government policy to encourage the breakup of the traditional family, as liberal welfare policies most certainly did, ...."
Total break with reality here. The evolution of the welfare state was a response ... RESPONSE ... to the fact that the average male just is not suited to his duties as patriarch. We were very gracious ... spent several thousand years pretending it was not so ... but enough is, entirely, enough. How about you face that, and we and go from there. Otherwise, ... reactionary is the only word.
K: "The moral framework of the Republican party is antiquated, tribal, and backwards. Until you guys start actually analyzing moral issues rather than relying on tradition to tell you what's right and wrong, you will keep digging your hole and continue becoming more and more unpopular and irrelevant."
Oh now this would be a great subject for another article for discussion...care to favor us K?
We have heard your position on marriage but I for one would love to hear your thoughts on morals. It would be instructive to see what, if not tradition, you would rely upon for guidance and grounding.
One more thing. I can see why a progressive would consider conservatives values antiquated, things of value are lasting. If the values we share are dead they have been dead for a good long time.
Tribal? Surely you jest! Conservatives value family and faith but we also value rugged individualism and the entreprenurial spirit. It is the progressive left that insists the "following" all behave in particular ways and adopt particular ideas. There is a definite ritual one must follow. Little green bags at the grocery store, prius cars for all, get thee to the abortion clinic and do not tell us no...yes we can, yes we can, yes we can....if that ain't tribal I don't know what is.
Might as well take on "backwards" while I'm at it. The party that believes in the entreprenurial spirit and rugged individualism inspired everything new you can imagine. It is this spirit that moves us forward. In contrast, Al Gore, with his global warming tale, reminds me of the "tribal" witch doctor that keeps the tribe members in line by scaring them to death with pending boogedy boogedy doom. That is definitely tribal and quite backward. it is also backward to continue Marxist policies, policies that have failed countless times all over the world and created misery and suffering in the process.
I don't think you get the Republican Party at all, K, but you sure seem to have swallowed the liberal line. I hope you will take up my challenge and one day favor us with an article on this subject.
"Would you prefer that families and faith be banned from society?"
No, because unlike most conservatives, I don't think in completely binary extremes. That's another demonstration of the weaknesses of your party. You think the only alternative to the government discriminating against non-Christians and unconventional families is to discriminate against Christians and traditional families. In reality, there are a lot of options in between those two radical, anti-freedom extremes.
"No matter how many of us Obama labels as domestic terrorists, no matter how many of our grandparents he euthanizes, you will never crush the human desire to be free."
Name me one person Obama has labeled a domestic terrorist who didn't deserve it, and one grandparent he's euthanized.
Tina, I will try to work on an article like that this week. Thanks for the offer.