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This election could be Republicans’ last chance
At present some 63 per cent of the American population is white. But, by around 2040, the country is likely to be “majority-minority”. Hispanics currently represent 16 per cent of the American population. But 26 per cent of babies in the US last year were born to Hispanic families.
The Republicans risk getting trapped in a vicious circle. Because so many voters in their primaries are elderly “Anglos”, who are upset by the changing demographics of the US, candidates for the Republican nomination are more or less compelled to adopt hardline stances on immigration.
An inability to attract the votes of ethnic minorities in general – and Hispanics in particular – is a big disadvantage to the Republicans in this election but one the Romney-Ryan ticket could yet overcome. In future elections, it could be fatal. Mr Romney faces a very tough battle in the coming months. Future Republican candidates may conclude that he had it easy.
Maybe if white people stop oppressing everyone else, by the time we're not the majority anymore, the rest of population won't be so inclined to follow a "what goes around comes around" policy with us. Maybe if we take action, pull them up out of poverty, educate and employ them, stop locking them up and executing them, stop trying to keep them from voting, stop deriding other religions, and generally make race not an issue, then when our race no longer shields us, race won't be something that can be used against us. If we embrace a view of a single human race now, that view should still be around when we're not the majority. But if we espouse the majority using that against the minority, then there's little reason to expect others to do any differently when it's their turn.
Stupid premise. It's almost never "the last chance" for a political party with as much strength as the GOP.
We've had 50 years of this "help" - where has it gotten us? If the goal is to make "race not an issue," I'd recommend that white people concentrate on trying to educate themselves, thank you very much.Maybe if we take action, pull them up out of poverty, educate and employ them,
We've had 50 years of this "help" - where has it gotten us? If the goal is to make "race not an issue," I'd recommend that white people concentrate on trying to educate themselves, thank you very much.
Maybe if white people stop oppressing everyone else, by the time we're not the majority anymore, the rest of population won't be so inclined to follow a "what goes around comes around" policy with us. Maybe if we take action, pull them up out of poverty, educate and employ them, stop locking them up and executing them, stop trying to keep them from voting, stop deriding other religions, and generally make race not an issue, then when our race no longer shields us, race won't be something that can be used against us. If we embrace a view of a single human race now, that view should still be around when we're not the majority. But if we espouse the majority using that against the minority, then there's little reason to expect others to do any differently when it's their turn.
LMFAO... I love how you blame whites...
When power is grossly abused, I blame the powerful.
With all of the debate, not only in this forum but elsewhere across America, as to whether or not the Republicans are 'playing the race card' in their promotion of various bits of legislation which disproportionately affect minorities, some might actually see that race is a real problem for the GOP. The demographics are changing and some folks don't like it. Whether you think it is racism or not, there are many Americans of European descent who fear living in a nation where they have become the minority. They may not advocate blatant racial discrimination but all too often they remain silent in the face of actions by a more virulent minority of their number.
The question then becomes - Can brown and black work together in opposition to well-funded white groups refusing to cede their place at the top of society, even as the whites become a smaller percentage of the population? Or could we have a situation as during the 'good ol' days' when the powerful elites in the South suppressed the labour movement by promoting racism amongst poor whites and as a result both poor whites and blacks were screwed.
"last chance" nonsense is nonsense.
i remember in the early 2000s when Limbaugh declared that the Republican majority meant the Democrats were going to be out of power for a generation. if the repubs lose this time around, they'll be a force to be reckoned with in '16 due to Democratic presidential fatigue in the general public. this is an observable cycle.
what is coming to an end, however, is any tolerance for anti-homosexual candidates. the younger generations reject those views outright, and they will go the way of the anti-interracial marriage / segregation movements. the republicans will eventually drop this plank.
Oh, it can be, you know. Take the disintegration of the British Liberal Party in the Twentieth Century - huge majority in 1906, almost dead by 1950. What looks like strength can just be a loud voice and a lot of muscle-flexing by people who are way over the hill.
We've had 50 years of this "help" - where has it gotten us? If the goal is to make "race not an issue," I'd recommend that white people concentrate on trying to educate themselves, thank you very much.
I'd recommend that black people stop blaming white people for **** that happened before they were born
With all of the debate, not only in this forum but elsewhere across America, as to whether or not the Republicans are 'playing the race card' in their promotion of various bits of legislation which disproportionately affect minorities, some might actually see that race is a real problem for the GOP. The demographics are changing and some folks don't like it. Whether you think it is racism or not, there are many Americans of European descent who fear living in a nation where they have become the minority. They may not advocate blatant racial discrimination but all too often they remain silent in the face of actions by a more virulent minority of their number.
The question then becomes - Can brown and black work together in opposition to well-funded white groups refusing to cede their place at the top of society, even as the whites become a smaller percentage of the population? Or could we have a situation as during the 'good ol' days' when the powerful elites in the South suppressed the labour movement by promoting racism amongst poor whites and as a result both poor whites and blacks were screwed.
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that was really relevant - NOT
YEAH! Racism and its effects have been over for decades. It is fin.. end... kaput... no-more!
YEAH! Racism and its effects have been over for decades. It is no more. Fin.. end... kaput... no-more!
you may want to tell Obama that..he loves playing the race card
and everyone knows that ALL whites are racists. :roll:
funny how "you people" are always wetting yourself and squealing about how :2bigcry: "unfair" it is to stereotype all blacks as thugs and criminals due to the actions of a few, yet you have no problem blaming all white people for the attitudes and actions of a few.
hypocrisy...what a liberal concept
All this is running on the assumption that nothing changes within parties which is a really bad flaw to run with being that the Dixie-crats of yester-year were the anti-civil rights politicians that then fled the Democratic party when Lyndon Johnson signed the civil rights bill into law. Parties change... but as of now, the GOP is sure as hell selling out their future as much as possible to grasp what they can now. It is going to blow up in their face rather badly IMO with their Southern strategy and their expanded Southwestern strategy in place... along with that whole war on women that they try to deny by mouth but confirm by action.
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