Politics, politics, politics!  I'm talkin' politics.

So, it seems that the Republicans are once again--for the millionth time--giving up on whatever conviction they said they had for the regular people who voted for them.  And once again, I am reminded why I no longer vote in this charade of a republic.  

Over at the Vox Day blog, a fellow by the name Titus Didius Tacitus said something wonderfully accurate, which I agree with.  He summarizes the life of the Republican party for the last 30+ years.  I must say, I agree with TDT completely in his summary.  

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2013/10/failing-at-surrender.html#comment-form

The modern Republican Party was assembled by Ronald Reagan.
* The anti-communist militarists got what they wanted.
* The rich for tax reduction got what they wanted.
* The religious and social conservatives got a start, but not immediately what they wanted, like the overturning of Roe.

With Bush the Elder,
* Anti-communists went home satisfied, and the Saudis got what they wanted instead. That meant another big money group joined the party, but popular support was less motivated.
* "No new taxes" proved a lie, but the big money boys still got enough to hang around.
* The religious and social conservatives were told that the check was in the mail, again. The Republican Party had moved to a model with duplicated funding but fewer and fewer enthusiastic voters.

Of course continuing mass immigration - about 70 million non-whites since the Hart-Celler act of 1965 - plus forced integration means that white Americans are being genocided anyway, and as the Republican Party gets 90% of its votes from whites, that's a problem.

With Bush the Younger,
* Israel and the neocons got enough of what they wanted. So did Americans angry about 9/11. The party became increasingly foreign owned and dependent on issues with a use-by date for any mass support.
* Government grew a lot, but the big money boys still got enough to hang around.
* The religious and social conservatives were told that the check was in the mail, again. And they got quite antsy, starting with the nomination of Harriet Miers, widely regarded as an exercise in cronyism, whereas pro-lifers were seeing the project of stacking the Supreme Court to remove Roe as serious.

Bush did about as much harm to the Republican Base as he could, with support for amnesty, no border enforcement, No Child Left Behind and so on. Promised reforms never happened; bailouts did.

Since then the leadership of the party has been McCain and Romney. The bargain offered the party's only remaining voting base was: you don't like him, but vote for him because he's electable. And on your issues: the check is in the mail, as always. The disliked but electable men proved unelectable and incompetent, as proved by ORCA. Social conservatives suspect that the check is not in the mail, never was and never will be.

The Republican coalition is now:
* Neocons who trust candidates like John McCain to start wars if elected. But so does Obama. If you like the growing police state, mass spying etc. there is no reason to stray from the Democratic Party. Besides, the neocons never did deliver the Jєωιѕн support they promised in return for being allowed to take over the party; instead they purged their rivals so they can't be removed even though they didn't deliver any goods.
* Some big money boys still get enough to hang around. Again, this is money, not votes or enthusiastic organizers.
* Some social conservatives think that even if the check is not in the mail it's their duty to vote Republican anyway. Others no longer show up. Republican policies as much as Democratic ones continue to genocide the white base year by year, so enthusiasm and numbers go down every year, and they cannot recover unless the party reconsiders the merits of mass immigration and forced integration, which it refuses to do.

Currently the Republican Party is a bunch of rich guys who want suckers to vote for them. The party has a sold record of breaking its promises to non-rich voters and supporters, and of harming the interests of its base. The party's solution for this is to support the importation of tens of millions of non-white Democrat voters.

I'm having trouble seeing how this party is going to be a long-term winner. A California scenario looks more likely.

You might as well vote for the tiny party you like, because the official opposition isn't worth anything.

Yeah.