tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post3309780704412997682..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-25802086781048508792014-09-05T20:23:03.499-04:002014-09-05T20:23:03.499-04:00Oh dear oh dear aimai I hope you're right.Oh dear oh dear aimai I hope you're right.Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-5967508298416703952014-09-04T16:49:36.040-04:002014-09-04T16:49:36.040-04:00There is simply no point worrying about this. Real...There is simply no point worrying about this. Realignments take time. People who are regular, older, voters will not switch their party line without some major force or disappointment. But that has nothing to do with what will happen in these regions in the long run. People will die off and their children will become, in some cases, more resistant to liberalism/multiculturalism but they won't have the numbers to overcome the new voters in twenty to thirty years. They just won't.aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-70637498090309887702014-09-04T15:52:50.382-04:002014-09-04T15:52:50.382-04:00FWI - KS hasn't put a Democratic Senator in DC...FWI - KS hasn't put a Democratic Senator in DC, since FDR's time.<br /><br />Inbreeding takes its toll, I guess.<br />I'm kidding.<br /><br />But, Rush's show has declining ratings, and he doesn't have much time left.<br />So are the ratings of other Reich-Wing radio yakkers.<br /><br />FOX's viewers are getting old.<br /><br />And yes, there will be plenty of bigoted and resentful younger white men to take the place of the listeners and viewers - and I'm not saying we're nearing peak-wingnut - but I don't see as positive a future for conservatives as you do.<br /><br />Look at some of the more recent Democratic Senators - Franken, Brown, Warren, Gillibrand, among others, and you'll see a more leftward shift.<br /><br />Hopefully, the rest of them will see that it's pragmatic to be more progressive.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-19603655621881344582014-09-04T14:44:59.031-04:002014-09-04T14:44:59.031-04:00What does it say?
It says get the hell away from K...What does it say?<br />It says get the hell away from Kansas and its infestation of wingnut Jeezoid mouth-breathers.labradoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01202374731492894742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-37099141717947824392014-09-04T14:38:06.065-04:002014-09-04T14:38:06.065-04:00"I think it's the result of relentless ri..."I think it's the result of relentless right-wing propaganda..."<br /><br />I agree with this, plus the "tribal" thing you mentioned. I sense that there are a decent number of people who are a bit right of center, but whose views are actually closer to mainstream Democratic Party positions than they are to the current Republican insanity. However, most of those people have self-identified as Republicans or conservatives for so long -- and have demonized Democrats and liberals -- that even though they can sense that the Republican party is lurching into crazytown, they can't conceive of voting for (ie "becoming") a dreaded Democrat. <br /><br />A prominent example of this is Andrew Sullivan. I haven't read his blog in a couple years, but I recall that even as he was drifting away from the Republican party, he'd still feel a need to occasionally throw in a jab at "the left". Rarely would he include an actual person or organization or specific proposal or anything. He just needed to kick "the left" in order to feel anchored and secure. Even as he became a strong Obama supporter, he'd continue his loathing of the amorphous "left" boogeyman he needed to believe in. Because if there's not some evil entity to the left of him, then that means... horrors! ... HE has actually moved to the left! Say it isn't so!<br /><br />Also, assuming people voted Republican during the GWB years, to switch now would mean admitting they were wrong before. People generally don't want to do that. (Sullivan often has, but most wouldn't)<br /><br />Honestly, I think our best hope in regards to these noncrazy Republican voters is that they'll just stay home. I don't see any way to get them to actually pull a lever for a Democrat. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com