The end of the Republican party

[Saltheart]

I think yesterdays election marks the end of the "Republican" Party. The country no longer wants it. The party is no longer recognized for what it was 150 years ago. Its no longer a strongly conservative party.

The country no longer wants it This election made it clear that the USA is now a country of the 47% and that what the new demographics want is socialism. There is no denying that the Democratic Party is the party of socialism and the rdistribution of wealth. I'm not commenting at all about whats right or wrong. Just stating the fact that this country now has a very well defined socialistic party and that that is what the majority of Americans want now. I don't believe we will ever see a president win an election unless he is firmly on the side of promoting entitlements and raising taxes to pay for the shift of wealth to lower income Americans. We have reached the tipping point.

No longer recognized as the party it was 150 years ago The Republican Party's claim to fame is that it was the party that abolished the enslavement of Blacks in the USA. No one would argue that the current Republican Party has any significant support from Blacks , Hispanics and other monorities. I believe this is principly do to the Repubilican stand against illegal imigration and the democratic support of the redistribution of wealth in the form of entitlements. If the Party is no longer recognized as the party that risked everything , even a Civil War , to free black slaves , then it has no idealistic identity anymore. It really looks to most as a party of rich people or religious right wingers.

It is no longer a strongly conservative party The fact is that the Republican party is now best defined by what is now called Libertarians. Its core is not rich white men and religious fanatics. Its core is now people with liberal social beliefs and conservative fiscal policy beliefs. A new party has to emerge trhat clearly shows that it represents those with thoughts as liberal or even more liberal than the democratic party in the form of Libertarian beliefs but that is fiscally conservative and therefore in opposition to the socialist Democratic party on matters of tax and spending. No party will ever get a president elected again if he is pro life , does not support equal pay for woman , does not support looser immigration policies for Mexico and does not think that at all costs, in terms of a tax burden , that we must support elderly people with food , housing and medical subsidies.


It will be interesting to see what gets cobbled together as the face and identity of the Republican Party by 2016. The name will likely stay the same but I think after two drubbings in consecutive elections at the hands of a truly socialist Democratic Party , whatever opposition there is left in this country knows that they can no longer get elected by supporting anything except a big government role in the lives of the people and that that big government will have to subsidize the income of more than 1/2 the Americans in the future.

Now I'm thinking along the lines of a country like the socialist countries in Europe. England seems to be the most likely path we will follow until the money runs out and we slip more into the third world mold of Greece and Spain. However , it is the direction we will move in and somehow we need to find a way to keep some incentive to work in the minds of the ambitious young people. If everyone just gives up and decides to dip into the pork barrel , we will slide down quickly and deeply into third world status.

For the near term my own personal fear is a total collapse of the economic strength of the country and a collapse of the value of our currency. I don't want to see my lifes savings become worthless do to inflation driven by the collapse of the US dollar. I worked and saved for over 40 years. I'd hate to see it all evaporate into devalued dollars putting me in a position where I am driven into the growing ranks of the 47%.