Actually, in many ways things haven't changed that much. For example, Romney won whites by nearly the same margin as Reagan did. But whites were 88% of voters in 1980 and now they're 72%. So in a sense Romney was like Reagan. He only ran with the wrong electorate.
88% just 30 years ago? Ewwwww... I really would've hated living in the 80s. As if the environment wasn't conservative enough, politicians had to pander to THAT electorate? I understand they constituted 83% of the overall pop., so it's not terribly unrepresentative... but I sleep quite better at night knowing they are not the only people our leaders have to worry about.
I probably should cool it a bit when it comes to my fellow white folks, I've spent the better part of this election cycle insulting them, but even after two Obama victories, I just don't think a lot of them "get it".
Not sure you're allowed to complain about getting it, considering you've apparently spent the last two cycles insulting your own ethnic group. Without even touching upon political stances (where you also don't get it, but you're in good company), that's a pretty clear example of not getting it.
Conservatism is dead. The oil wars, Katrina, and the theocon takeover killed it. The Republican party killed it by redefining conservatism as the wanton invasion of foreign countries and fear of everything new. "True" conservatives have no one else to blame for Obama's rise to power than themselves, the Democrat party could have nominated a dead, decomposing pig for president in 2008 and won two terms in the white house. Conservatism is dead, we have killed it.
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