re: #294 EdDantes

Since Reagan left office the Republicans are unfocused and without direction. They seem to obsess on social issues and not understand that America is changing (for god or bad) and they need to recognize the change. Not necessarily accept it but acknowledge it!

Reagan obsessed about ‘social issues’, too. That’s post-Southern Strategy, so the GOP policy of blaming black people for poverty, the war on science—especially environmental science—had started. Reagan was better than the GOP of today, in that he at least recognized simple things like the virtue of unions, but he’s part of the problem, the invitation and celebration of the Christian far-right.

And I’d say modern Republicans do recognize America is changing: that’s why they constantly freak-out, attempting to stop gay marriage, to stop sex education being taught in schools. They’ve recognized it, and they’re fighting it in a wasteful and hopeless attempt to get back to an idealized era that never even existed in the first place.