The Hope for the 50's to return is a hope of when everyone else was seen and not heard. Everyone else meaning every other race. Simpler times means we ran shit and no one had any voting rights.
So Romney lost because the demographics changed. He actually won the same white vote as Bush did. But, 12 years later the population of the others have made that majority not automatic.
The Republicans will have to learn they have to actually try to sway minorities. That's why you're hearing the bitching session right now.
They failed because they refused to acknowledge that the electorate is changing and becoming more diverse everyday. They were so hell bent on representing their demographic, that for some stupid reason they alienated everyone else.
Fools, they would have won by a landslide if the voting public was what it was just 20 short years ago.
Concerning to whom the fault of oppression belongs; "We are not all equally guilty but we are all equally responsible" - Rabbi Abraham Hescel
Concerning blaming others for the problem; "...And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?... - Matthew: 7 1-5
Concerning how to fix the problems concerning oppression; "Someone once said that the word 'motivation' should never be used in the singular. Some combination of motives always exist and it's impossible for anyone to qualify the proportion of each that is involved in any given act" - Warren Buffet (in an interview in the USA Today)
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not only are things different... but many are wishing we were back in the 50's.
Veeeeery suspect.
The Hope for the 50's to return is a hope of when everyone else was seen and not heard. Everyone else meaning every other race. Simpler times means we ran shit and no one had any voting rights.
So Romney lost because the demographics changed. He actually won the same white vote as Bush did. But, 12 years later the population of the others have made that majority not automatic.
The Republicans will have to learn they have to actually try to sway minorities. That's why you're hearing the bitching session right now.
They failed because they refused to acknowledge that the electorate is changing and becoming more diverse everyday. They were so hell bent on representing their demographic, that for some stupid reason they alienated everyone else.
Fools, they would have won by a landslide if the voting public was what it was just 20 short years ago.
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