re: #3 erik_t

This is becoming an even bigger empty platitude than “the GOP is doomed”, and that’s saying a lot.

The “average American voter” is changing. The data bear this out. White people aren’t going to start having eleven kids each tomorrow. A snap-turn in demographic trends literally decades in the making would be unprecedented.

God help me if I’m drawing a MBF here, but responding to a long, thoughtful, well-reasoned position article with “yeah but ‘Murricans are dumb” puts me in a foul mood.

Sorry, but that’s how I feel. You are right that America is changing. I unfortunately can only go by what I experience, anecdotal as it is.

In my own personal sphere, I interact with people who insist on voting GOP even though the party has reached critical mass on the insanity front. You point these things out to them and they shrug their shoulders and go “Yeah, but whaddya gonna do?”

Besides, I’ve been reading about the imminent implosion of the GOP for 5 years now. It ain’t gonna happen. And if they nominate someone like Christie for 2016, it’s going to be all “Oh, look, they’re moderates now!”

Not holding my breath on this one.