re: #479 HappyWarrior

Does anyone think that the Republican base is more hesitant to change than the Democratic one because of certain quirks that make one a conservative versus a liberal. In my observations, conservatives are more stuck in their way types, more likely to believe in doing things the way tehy’ve always been done while liberals tend to think the opposite. I think the latter explains why the Democrats did adapt after having some tough times in the 80’s. and while I think the Republicans struggle at least in national elections. The bigger thing that remains though is that as the country gets more diverse culturally, the better the Dems do and I think that’s something that the Republicans know and it scares the crap out of them which is why you see Gohmert like outbursts like we did yesterday where the imbecile said some crap about the immigration luring children to emigrate. I don’t know.

I think the GOP polarized itself into a corner. You go back to roughly the 80s and both parties were much broader and essentially had internal conservative and liberal wings. The GOP leaned conservative, but had moderates and even liberals by the definitions of the day. Complete nuts were marginalized by both parties for the most part.

Once the purges started based on party loyalty and purity towards selected policies they started down their current road.