The GOP depends upon a coalition of greedy b@stards who want to turn the American (and probably ultimately the world) economy into an engine of prosperity for themselves alone and people who do not care how miserable the world gets for themselves because God will bless them in the Afterlife for the suffering that God mandates for any who are to reach Heaven -- all others being damned to Hell. For the latter, 'non-biblical' beliefs of secularists and non-Christians condemn one to Hell as if one were a serial murderer.
That coalition works well enough because the two parts of it never meet each other. It's analogous to the Democratic coalition that lasted until the 1950s -- Southern racist agrarians who hated protectionist economic policies of the Republican Party and a combination of non-WASPs and blue-collar workers in the North. Once the Northern part of the Democratic Party found out what the Southern agrarians found out how nasty the Southern agrarians were toward blacks, the coalition fell apart.
Yeah, Northern Democrats had no idea that the Southern members of their party were racist until the '60s. For all the heat the GOP gets for the "Southern Strategy" (at least from a historical perspective), Democrats from the 1850s to the 1960s were a thousand times worse.
Yup, you're probably right. But it's your problem now.
Fair enough. But that fact should be consolation enough for Democrats, I don't get where the need to rewrite the history books to absolve the party of all past sins comes from.
Being right -- or having power. For the fanatic, being right is so important that basking in the self-generated rays of self-righteousness is enough. For the thug, power is everything even if it means the destruction of everything precious so long as one gets the broads, the booze, and the filthy lucre. For the rest of us we have to make compromises.
