re: #289 EPR-radar

One way to look at this is that the assorted cranks and misfits that were swept up into the GOP as a result of the civil rights realignment really weren’t getting what they wanted out of the GOP establishment in the 70s and 80s. So they embarked on a long term project to take over the party to make it more responsive to their primal urges.

This project is presently nearing completion.

I get the hope reading about some college Republicans that some of the carzy is merely generational and the next generation of Republicans (Millienial generation ones) will be less focused on social issues but I’ve met some pretty insane Republicans my generation too. Sure, some of them may not be total nutso on social issues but some of them especially the ones I know who got their economic gospel from Ron Paul and Ludwig von Mises make up for it with an economic world-view that repulses me as much as any backwards so-con view. I think the Republicans of the 70’s and 80’s understood that government had to work. They preferred it smaller certainly but I think they saw its importance.