re: #84 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

The party got sold. The budget/military conservatives a long time ago made themselves comfortable with the social conservatives, and have been voting with them steadily. I don’t quite know how it happened that way— it didn’t even start with Reagan, though he solidified it— but it’s been the deal for a long time. To vote Republican has meant voting for social conservativism for quite awhile.

Those Republicans who are not social conservatives all have a breaking point. Mine came very long ago, as I began to fully comprehend just how much the GOP really was going to fight gay rights tooth and nail.

Its simple, rich people needed foot soldiers and voters to come from somewhere, because they are so few in number. They had to get a large segment of the population to vote against its own economic interests. Hence the “Southern Strategy” to play on the anxieties of whites in a changing society. It worked well for a long time, but now its biting the GOP in the ass because all the people the GOP demonized to scare white fundamentalists are now a growing majority of voters.