The republican conondrum

Now that America has heard the top ten reasons why romney lost (going on 25 at last count), the truth is obvious, the republican message sucks.

1. Your messenger was carrying your message; romney did not create the GOP platform or pander to all of its radical constituencies on his own. Do the republicans really plan to ditch the homphobes, true believing radical Christians and those who see America as it existed fifty years ago? Romney never criticized the nut jobs nor distanced himself from their comments. Why?

2. The modern day GOP is built on separatism and dividing the country; it is called maker vs. takets, job creators vs. welfare queens, the successful vs. the food stamp nation; ready to actually practice some real inclusion with that idealogy? Talk with a republican and within a few minutes you'll hear the 'us' and 'them' line of bs.

3. Government is never the solution, it is always the problem; that is except when you want the public to bail out the banks which gambled us to the brink, when you insist on favoring industries which required corporate welfare even when profitable and when you continue to use government as tool to enforce social policies which your side favors vs. what the majority believes.

Reform requires real commitment to changing your bad habits; and the first step in that is to admit you might have some. So far what we have seen from the Jindals, Barbours and others is totally cosmetic and not substantive.

1. No one likes a loser particulary after you have chosen that loser as your standard bearer and spent a few billion to get him elected;

2. Victory has a thousand parents; defeat is an orphan;

3. Nothing is so clarifying as to have your candidate and his (your?) message rejected by a majority of the electorate. ...See More

(1st draft) - The utopian vision

of hindsight. Longing for the 50's and 60's.
The recent election of 2012 brought into focus an almost mythical characterization og the 1950's. The nmedia likes to characterize the c omposition of the republican/ tea-party/ right-wing base as the white man who longs for the 1950's.
Well who is the people who long for the 1950's. Most likely not those lived them as adults. Think about that - 18 in 1950 would make one 80 today so its mostly those who were children are the majority that make up the group that romanitize the 1950's

But what are the social/ economic eleements the characterized the 1950's?
1) jobs / empolyment\
2) level / state of education
3) characteristics of the population then vs. 2012.
4) taxiation
5) transportation -  auto / air / rr.
6) make-up of work.
7) only country left standing
8) WWII - political/economic-mass production /  labor force.
9) the incentives to relocate between states and cities.
10) myth of free market
11) right to work [anti-union]
12) emerging from WWII as the only power
13) the mercantilist empire
14) the white world vision thing
15) gthe 1950's last vestige of the regional economy that came to be as the USA developed in the USA as it grew and evloved.
16) the agricultural transformation -

The other thing about the agricultural-industrial complex is that it has gutted the populace of the ag states, turning them from the self-reliant small farmer-citizens into financially disenfranchised farm laborers. This is a key driver for the anger. They distrust the federal government for good reason- ag policy has destroyed their way of life. And as a consequence, the nation as a whole has lost an important part of what made us great- small farmers and the small local industry of tinkerers that they foster was traditionally one of the engines that fuel manufacturing innovation- and serve as a stabilizing political force....See More