The idea that the Right was only Evangelicals implausible. It would be like saying the Left is only Marxists. While Marxist are a part of the Left, they aren’t the whole story. Party politics is necessarily a matter of coalition-building. Coalitions are necessarily made up of different factions that want different (and sometimes contradictory) things, but vote together.
The Right has, for the past few decades, been made up of Christian “Moral Majority” types, Beltway Libertarians, and foreign policy and crime hawks for the past few decades. Racially and economically, the party is made up of white middle class people and rural America as its base, with its leadership being made up of mainly wealthy Jewish (and a few non-Jewish white) Neocons.
The Left has been made up of a lot more people. Old-fashioned workers’ rights types, Progressive “SJW” types, Marxists and Neo-Marxists of varying stripes, Clintonian Neoliberals, feminists, non-white racial identitarians (of Jewish, Black, and Hispanic flavors), Muslims, LGBT activists, Social Gospel-type Christians, and Atheist activists. As you can imagine, this is a very - ahem - diverse coalition compared to the Right’s, which is why the Left wing is so self-contradictory at times. I have no doubt that once immigrant demographics makes right-wingers a marginal electoral threat, you can expect this coalition to just tear itself apart. Speaking of demographics, the Left pretty much owns all non-whites, who will apparently vote for them no matter what, as well as the commanding heights of wealth and influence of all races. And of course, poor people who are dependent on government handouts also vote Left. Interestingly enough, the same kinds of people who run the Republicans also run the Dems: Jews and non-Jewish whites. This is probably because of money, as Jews and Whites have the highest average salaries and tend to be the best educated.
What has happened in the past decade is that the Dems have started moving away from working class politics and towards concerns about “diversity,” a policy that’s very, very good for business. Meanwhile, non-college educated white working-class men have made a shift to voting right-wing since Trump, possibly because they are attracted to Trump’s anti-war and nationalistic rhetoric. These events are causing a huge upset, a realignment that happens only once a generation. What will come of it, I don’t quite know.
What I do know is that as the Left becomes more diverse, they are going to ratchet up the anti-white, anti-male, anti-heteronormative rhetoric that will drive disenfranchised white men into the arms of the right. The Republicans won’t know what to do with them because they will be pressured to pander to non-whites too, so they’ll be pushed into the reactionary dissident right-wing. That’s where things will get interesting. What I’m hoping is that, by that point, the far right will have decent leaders that will channel all that energy and anger into positive community-building.
I...Damn not sure how to take this.
If so old how find your way to this spinoff fanforum.
Moreover do you not see why Trump scares the younger gen and those who ARE prone to oppose neocons? As an example the infamous "trans support group suicide" tweet. Progress was being made a little at a time at personal cost...and then Trump ran on a platform playing to racial politics and promising to turn back the clock and highlight illegal immigration (always a racial issue, we don't care about the passing expired visa college students; its always the idea of border crossing eroding economic sturdiness and social tradition)
I don't even agree with all of it. But calling these guys the same as 'swearing hippies' ... well maybe but I'd have to understand why call those 60s guys that and what you call and say motivates these guys.
It’s all about demographics; the elites of both parties like mass immigration because it gives them a slave wage class for the rich corporations (
just read this) and the Dems especially like it because it gives them a reliable voting demographic (
watch this). So bellyaching about how evil people who oppose immigration are isn’t going to cut it. These trends are actually happening, and shouting people’s concerns with cries of “racism!” while our rent-seeking elites pick our pockets isn’t going to make them go away.