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The Campaign Spectator
Demography, Destiny, and Delusion
Liberals’ focus on race ignores what really drives voter behavior.
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School choice changes the interests of parents, teachers, and, over time, young voters freed from state control. Every private-school teacher hired is one fewer public-school teacher forced to pay union dues and subject to political pressure every day in the same direction.
Entrepreneurs and the Self-Employed: Obama and the Democrats have intensified their efforts to reduce the number of new small businesses and entrepreneurs. Yes, they demonize them in word. But their teeth show in their tax increases on “the rich,” which are deliberately targeted at the 30 million small businesses that pay not the corporate income tax, but the personal income tax: subchapter S corporations, partnerships, and the self-employed.
In June 2007, there were 10 million self-employed Americans. That number was driven down to 8.6 million in July 2011. And things are getting worse. The tsunami of new regulations, Obamacare, and threatened tax hikes mean that Americans, per capita, are starting new businesses with employees just half as fast as they did 30 years ago. Looking at raw numbers: Americans started 563,324 businesses with employees in 1977 and only 403,765 in 2009.
Fewer small businesses, fewer entrepreneurs…fewer Republicans. This is no accident, comrade.
Government Workers: Rasmussen polling data show government workers are more likely to vote Democrat, and as their pay and length of tenure increase, so does that party loyalty. Not surprisingly, the stimulus packages passed by Obama and Reid used federal tax dollars to subsidize union-dues-paying, Democrat-voting, state and local government employees.
Investors: Rasmussen polling also shows that Americans who have at least $5,000 invested in the stock market through, for instance, Individual Retirement Accounts or defined-benefit pension plans, are 18 percent more likely to vote Republican. Utah’s state senator Dan Liljenquist wrote and won passage of legislation that requires all state and local government employees hired after July 1, 2011, to have a defined-contribution plan. The state will contribute 10 percent of the employee’s income to a 401(k), or 12 percent for police and firemen, and there will therefore be no newly created unfunded liabilities. (And fewer newly created Democrats; personal savings breeds Republicans.)
No surprise that Obama pushes higher taxes on saving and investment, and the confiscation of half your estate through the death tax.
Ineligible and Dead Voters: One can also change the electorate by expanding it to include the departed: both those who have moved to other jurisdictions but whose names remain on voter lists, and those who have actually died and yet can cast ballots through the living, if no one is watching. Republicans have enacted voter ID laws in several states to limit opportunities for voter fraud, but Obama’s “Justice Department” is working hard to overturn them. Voter integrity efforts change the nature of the electorate in one direction; voter fraud moves it in the other.
Following the ideologically embarrassing workers’ revolt against the East German paradise in 1953, Bertolt Brecht recommended that the Communists elect themselves a new people. In free societies, over time elected officials can in fact create an electorate more sympathetic to their views. The smart Republican and Democrat leaders have been doing this for years.
The 2012 elections will determine not only the direction of America, but the very nature of its people.
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RR| 5.2.12 @ 6:38AM
Thank you for pointing out Mike Farris. He is a true American patriot! And he's now bigtime invovled in a really good college, Patrick Henry College, just outside of Washington, D.C. on the Virginia side. Hint, hint, parents and grandparents, Patrick Henry is a great place to send your kids after, yes, after you've homeschooled them.
After he passes away, Mike Farris needs to be on a U.S postage stamp. Yep. He's that kind of American, husband, father, leader, good and faithful man.
Homeschooling. 2d Amendment. Faith. Churchgoing. The Bible. The God of the Bible. American history. The Constitution. Term Limits. The Tea Party. Folks, we need to rev it all up.
Donald Young's Revenge| 5.2.12 @ 9:41AM
The true patriots are those who are supporting and defending and financially helping expose Barack Hussein Obama's criminal activity and his usurping of the office of the POTUS. There are a dozen of Obama ballot challenges going on across the country and some are now on appeal in Federal courts. The one in Tennessee seems to have potential for a real debate on the "natural born Citizen" issue. Attorney Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and presently with Freedom Watch is leading the Obama ballot challenge in Florida. He will not be brushed aside by some hill billie judge.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has provided a platform to expose the crimes that Obama has committed in his lead up to the 2008 election where he was enabled by the DNC and the Democrat Party to usurp the office of the presidency. Some of the folks that the Tea Party help get elected in 2010 are enabling this to continue. They have been hand delivered evidence in which could have been used to force a criminal investigation by Congress by they remain silent to this day.
Grover, you need to get in their butts and demand that they do something. You need to throw your full support behind the Sun Shine Tea Party in Arizona and give your full national support to Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse. These are the true patriot heroes and they are presently being black listed by ALL conservative media outlets. What the hell is up with that Gorver?
TrueBlue | 5.2.12 @ 11:47AM
Just a reminder for those who keep saying, "Congress needs to do something," they need agreement on what to do from both the House AND the Senate in order to do anything about the President's overreach. The Dems in the Senate won't allow it, so unfortunately there is nothing they can do until they gain control of that body of Congress as well.
Alan Brooks| 5.2.12 @ 4:40PM
"Homeschooling."
Doesn't matter- America's skools will always be inferior.
Alan Brooks| 5.2.12 @ 10:20PM
What works well at McDonalds-- 30 Billion Served-- doesn't work in the classroom. Children are not Big Macs or Quarter Pounders.
Alej| 5.3.12 @ 9:09AM
They were doomed to that status in 1956. Why is America # 26 in the industrialized world in general education / scholastic performance ?
The first 25 countries are monocultural.
jpc| 5.2.12 @ 7:01AM
Race/ethnicity do matter quite a bit when it comes to voting patterns. The brutal truth is most non-white people vote Dem, most white people vote Repub.
Since mass immigration of the past 30 years is overwhelmingly non-white, what does portend for the future? You do the math.
Bobloblaw| 5.2.12 @ 8:02AM
Correct. "neo-cons" like Norquist delude themselves and can come up with arguments why nonwhite will one day be GOP, but it wont happen.
Blacks as they have moved into the middle class, not only vote in higher numbers, but are MORE loyal to the Dem party than are poor blacks. It is middle class blacks who rely on affirmative action, not impoverished ones. Secondly, govt jobs at all levels not private sector jobs are the path to riches for nearly all minorities.
Where Norquist and other pro-immigrant conservatives err is assuming that immigrants and minorities "conservative" values will translate into votes for the GOP. There is no evidence for this what so ever. You may be against abortion, gays marriage and support school vouchers, but your loyalty is to the Dem party.
By 2020, it is said the Dem party will be majority minority. I expect over the next 20 years, the Dem party will become a full blown anti-White party. Van Jones is not some nutcase on the fringe. He is the future of the Dem party and what the average Dem pol will look like in 2030. In response it is likely that whites will vote GOP in numbers that would make Nixon's 1972 campaign envious (Nixon got 66% of the white vote in 1972). While the GOP could lose TX in the next 20 years along with AZ, current left leaning states with little to no demographic changes like ME, NH, MI, PA, WI, and IA could by 2025 be solid GOP states as whites are increasingly seen as prey by the "new" Dem party. Thus keeping the GOP competitive. Current Dem Permanent Majority forecasts rely in a growing non-White population and at the same time a white population that votes for the GOP no more than 55-45, but what if the GOP can count on 70% of the white vote? Then GOP fortunes improve but only at the cost of the USA looking somewhat like a warmed over South Africa under Jacob Zuma.
JP| 5.2.12 @ 8:57AM
African Americans numbers peaked some 20 years ago. They are steadily losing ground to Hispanics and Caucasians as a percentage of the population. Demographics can be tricky. But, one can assume that abortion, and urban crime are takiing its toll amongst African Americans. From a political point of view, thier clout remains bottled up in cities like Boston, Atlanta, LA, and Chicago. Yes, they may rule the roos in those urban areas, but stagnation and decay are real dangers. Detroit is just the canary in the coal mine. And in many areas, it is the younger Hispanic Demographic that are thier political rivals. For 2012, the homogenized Liberal/Progressive bloc of the Coasts, New England Correigdor, and certain Rust Belt States give the Dems are foundation. But, it is a foundation similar to the Austrian Empire of the 1860s. It stopped growing years ago. It has no where to go but down.
What is important here is not percentages, but turn-out. Turn-out determined the winners of the last 3 elections. This is especially true in Virginia, Florida, Ohio, and Colorado.
A final note on demographics. The Hispanic population bulge probably peaked between 2003-2007. Mexican and South American birthrates have plunged since 1970. Brazil already has birthrates below replacement levels (1.8), and Mexico will see its birthrates go below replacement levels this decade (currently the birthrate of Mexico is 2.4 , but in 1970 it was 6.2). Hispanics in the US accounted for almost 50% of live births for the US in 2009. But, the majority of these births came from recent immigrants. The birthrates of 2nd generation Hispanic American females is 1.7 - the same as anyone else. And for the first time in decades, more Hispanics are leaving the US than entering it.
PolishKnight| 5.2.12 @ 10:06AM
"I expect over the next 20 years, the Dem party will become a full blown anti-White party."
Actually, they largely have been since the mid-70's except that most moderate Republicans and useful idiot voters on the left refuse to acknowledge it. A Democrat analyst even had a name for it: The Archie and Edith Bunker paradigm. Until the 1960's, the Democrat party was the party of working class proletariat whites until they realized that the best way to retain power was to toss the working class whites under the bus. And they did. It was then a kind of IQ test to see how long various white voters could figure it out.
Apparently, the educated affluent leftist whites without government jobs are the morons of history.
The single biggest reason why leftist and socialism are failures isn't that their economics doesn't work (that can be quibbled over) but rather they just can't seem to stop themselves from dehumanizing their countrymen and they don't just target the rich but rather the unconnected rich (in the short term) and then most of the people.
In the book 1984, the socialist state can be described as a boot stomping on a human face forever. That's the ugliness of their ideology and their followers. They'd be happy to do a George Soros and help throw children into death camps for a cushy government job. They're scum.
DTOM!| 5.2.12 @ 11:13AM
PK,
I'm thinking you under-value the long, long list of socialist economic - social failures. It is those failures that drive socialists to the divisive, group vs. group politics we are seeing Obama engaging in.
Don't Tread On Me.
PolishKnight| 5.2.12 @ 11:25AM
DTOM, I'm giving the devil his due for his sake rather than mine.
In western Europe, or fantasyland for leftists, there is a lot there to appreciate. Long vacations, fantastic public transportation, much fewer homeless on the streets, and, well, culture beyond the suburban wasteland and city office parks that our culture war has helped produce here.
How much of that is due to socialist economic policies rather than simple benefits of the European culture and history can be debated, of course. In addition, American capitalism has helped give us the H1B and illegal immigration problem even as it cries to protect itself from the marxist agenda of those same immigrants, yes?
What is undeniable is that socialists in both the states and Europe seem hell bent upon destroying their own populations simply for the fun of it. There is no need to import Islamic voters for the left. They already have plenty of the them there. Just as Clinton's pathological lying said something about his character, the left's pathological need to dehumanize their population says volumes, don't you think?
Sadly, the time is likely yet to come when demographics trumps all and conservative politics dies. When the left has won, that's kind of like Despicable Me where the villain ponders life without Metroman. Who will they blame then for all their failures? And what to do with their illiterate, useless electorate they no longer need for votes along with the over educated Trotskyish chumps in OWS?
I betcha those death camp ovens will be ahumming...
PolishKnight| 5.2.12 @ 11:53AM
Oops, I meant giving the Devil his due for MY sake rather than HIS.
Seek| 5.2.12 @ 11:40AM
Finally, someone here gets it right. The Democrats are the anti-white party; it is incumbent, therefore, for the Republicans to become the pro-white party.
Why is saying this so impermissible? For one thing, the numbers are still on our side -- non-Hispanic whites are still at least two-thirds of the U.S. population. For another, symmetry requires that if it's OK to talk about "the black vote" and "the Hispanic vote," then it ought to be OK to talk about the white vote. My theory: Most whites, at least status-oriented whites, are so petrified of being called "racist," especially by blacks, that they can't bring themselves to say the obvious. It makes you who really runs the "plantation."
As for Hispanics, they are not our friends. They're seen in this photo still waving American flags at a rally, but that's all for show -- to convey how "patriotic" granting amnesty to illegal immigrants would be. Believe me, Hispanic activism is NOT pro-American. And it certainly doesn't add up to GOP election victories.
TexasMom2012| 5.2.12 @ 6:35PM
Not all Hispanics are anti American. Texas has always had a large contingent of Hispanics since before we broke away from Mexico. The problems here started with ESL. My son has soccer buddies born here that struggle with English because of the ESL program. When I was in school all the first generation born here spoke fluent English. That is no longer the case, even some second generation Hispanics struggle with the language. English is the bond of our society and the best chance for success. Dems pushed the failed ESL as another division in the electorate.
Al Adab| 5.2.12 @ 7:40PM
Sugar Mom:
Kinda late in the evening to start this conversation. You are however correct. I have an old business partner whose family was ranching in the Arivaipa Canyon area of Arizona at least as far back as the 1750's. He is a strong businessman and a solid Conservative.
Appleby| 5.2.12 @ 7:09AM
One demographic you have not mentioned, that is becoming increasingly important: the born.
The vast majority of abortions are conducted on liberal, Occupying, Gimmee type far-lefters, and a really stunning number, something like 60%, of all Black babies are aborted before they can grow up to vote. The rising birth rate favours conservative, Catholic and Mormon families who have more children on average than hippie leftwing families (or single mothers) do and judging by my own parish where two or three babies a week are baptized on average, this voting demographic is going to be very significant in years to come.
Seek| 5.2.12 @ 11:42AM
This is absurd. As for blacks, they vote overwhelmingly Democrat. Not to celebrate abortion, but when blacks reduce their population this way, they are diminishing the Democratic Party's future ranks -- assuming they bother to vote.
GW| 5.2.12 @ 1:23PM
Isn't this along the lines of Appleby's arguments? Democrats abort their young at higher rates than conservative Republicans--including liberal affluent whites and welfare ghetto blacks.
TexasMom2012| 5.2.12 @ 6:38PM
No to mention the high rate of young black kids murdering each other and the high rate of incarceration of black men... You lose your vote when you are convicted of a felony... Which is exactly why the Dems are trying to restore the vote to felons while suppressing the votes of active duty military personnel. It is all politics because they don't care about their voters and they certainly don't care about those that won't most likely vote for them!
Seek| 5.2.12 @ 7:29PM
I know of no reliable survey data, indeed any survey data, breaking down abortion by political belief of the patient. It's sheer speculation based on caricature. I know for a fact, however, that a lot of abortion occurs in the Bible Belt. What the patients believe politically is a separate issue.
Brian Mc| 5.2.12 @ 7:18AM
One in five high school graduates flunk the Army's entrance exam. This does not count in the portion of dropouts expanding the number of voters who haven't a clue. Race aside, this is a voting block who are gullible to the left's rantings. Their inability to use their God-given talents is criminal on their part and with the realization comes bitterness and envy. Two character flaws the left loves to manipulate to their advantage. The fall of democracy's writing is on the wall and becoming quite legible to any willing to look up and read it, if they can...or dare.
PolishKnight| 5.2.12 @ 10:19AM
This is a useful lesson in statistics. For example: Most men who ask for DNA testing of their offspring discover they are not the biological father. This is probably because most men who have sufficient suspicion to request such a test probably are at a high risk of not being the father to begin with.
Not to say anything bad about the military, but it probably makes sense that a disproportionate number of high school grads applying to join the army will fail an exam as compared to those who maybe plan to go onto college. That fact that 4 out of 5 such applicants pass suggests to me that the army probably sets their standards quite low.
Brian Mc| 5.2.12 @ 5:24PM
They graduated. And you think the Army sets their standards too low? There is no reason in hell that any high school graduate should come close to flunking; that there is a certain percentage that does is damning, don't you think?
PolishKnight| 5.3.12 @ 10:41AM
I read the news story and one of the questions was apparently: 2 times X equals 4, what is the value of X?
That is pretty low and it is quite incredible that a high school graduate could flunk that but, sadly, there are plenty of reasons in hell for it: teacher cheating and administrators passing students to keep their graduate rates (and public funding) high and political concerns about various Democrat demographics having low graduation rates.
When my father joined the army in 1959, he knew 4 languages and had the equivalent of what today would be an associate degree. He got in as an enlisted man and only served to avoid being drafted. At the time, the economy was pretty good and he could get a decent job in the states (and did after he left the army) and educational standards were high as well but college degrees were also probably less common.
Just an observation.
Von Mises Jr| 5.2.12 @ 7:57AM
If the liberal/progressive/Marxist block is so powerful and growing, why were there reports of forty (40) OWS clowns in Bryant Park yesterday?
For a city of 8 million, that's .000005%. Stated differently, that is one OWS weirdo for every 200,000 New York City residents.
Perhaps I am too harsh. Maybe there were 80 at the May Day protest!
PolishKnight| 5.2.12 @ 10:42AM
My wife and I were watching Russian TV and found the coverage amusing compared to that in the states.
The commies have many faults, but their May Day celebrations are colorful: wonderful red banners and people dressed in their best uniforms going back to WWII, banners with mass murderer Stalin are especially well decked out, and parades with many beautiful young women.
The dirty, dowdy hippies of OWS make socialism look bad. It's Hunger Games without the Games.
Al Adab| 5.2.12 @ 12:09PM
The Left, totalitarians that they are, insist on treating people as members of monolithic groups, based on race, ethnicity, gender or other factors instead of as individuals with choice making abilities. Conservatives understand that not all (fill in the blank) think and vote alike. They are sovereign persons who have experiences and viewpoints not dictated by circumstance but constructed by the lives and philosophies. Is it not racist to assume all people act alike on that basis alone?
Von Mises Jr| 5.2.12 @ 12:59PM
An interesting read is Richard Pipes "Property and Freedom." He explains how Russia never really had Western style property rights. The land is not fertile enough to support farming along the old passage to the India spice route, the Monguls then their own leaders such as Peter and Cathrine "The Great" kept families broken and unsettled. so socialism was easy to adopt.
That is why these UN Agenda21 Marxist and their ObaMao will have a difficult time getting Americans to accept socialism. It is only ignorant scum such as OWS that are too stupid to understand or unable to take care of themselves. How pathetic.
Al Adab| 5.2.12 @ 3:48PM
Jr:
Pipes is very good on this. I would also recommend
Mystery of Capital by DeSoto
Noblest Triumph by Tom Bethell
Both of those also explain how property rights (so under attack by our own government- income is property) are the basis of wealth and advancement for people. Good reads all.
Von Mises Jr| 5.2.12 @ 4:59PM
Thanks, buddy. I have DeSoto "Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles" to read. I did not see "Mystery of Capital" at www.mises.org. But I will keep both in mind next time looking for books.
JimH| 5.2.12 @ 8:18AM
I don’t have any numbers at hand to support this, but I suspect that the path to the middle class by most blacks has been via jobs in government and institutions rather than as entrepreneurs or in the corporate world. Hence they continue to equate their interests with the State even if most are social conservatives.
Bob K.| 5.2.12 @ 11:58AM
This is very true and they are very aggressive in pushing for jobs and promotions in government agencies on the basis of affirmative action. Even now, problems are coming about because some of these affirmative action personnel decisions have been favorable to Hispanics over Blacks in order to maintain a balance in the government workplaces. White males are more and more dropping out of the competition.
TexasMom2012| 5.2.12 @ 6:44PM
Case in point, the United States Post Office. Ours looks like the UN sans any Caucasians. No white people need apply. I don't understand how that happened but given the lack of customer service, I am not surprised they are bankrupt.
TexasMom2012| 5.2.12 @ 6:44PM
Case in point, the United States Post Office. Ours looks like the UN sans any Caucasians. No white people need apply. I don't understand how that happened but given the lack of customer service, I am not surprised they are bankrupt.
Derek Leaberry| 5.2.12 @ 8:55AM
Norquist is the one who is delusional. Race matters in American politics and this will increase in the future. The neo-con/libertarian color blind world has never existed and never will. Most people vote tribally.
Skippy| 5.2.12 @ 4:23PM
True enough, but as far as race is concerned, our tribe is the biggest, wealthiest and best armed.
Demography is destiny!
fiscal| 5.2.12 @ 9:18AM
Yes, demographics is destiny -- and Republicans are increasingly becoming more white and more male. There is at least a 10 point female advantage with women. In fact, most people perceive Republicans to be anti-color and anti-female. Unfortunately, the numbers prove this to be true. The way the math works is that Democrats automatically have about 45% of the vote and Republicans automatically have about 40% of the vote. Therefore, national elections are about convincing 15% of the population to swing. These are mostly suburban and affluent minority voters.
Republicans do have a "war on women" because they don't support true liberty on social issues. They want more government intrusion and laws on issues of liberty like abortion, gay marriage, contraception. Liberty demands that government stay out of peoples lives -- not only on fiscal issues, but on social issues as well.
As far as immigration goes, it is really hard to understand Republican ideology unless you consider it racist. Think of it this way.... The thing that makes America great is the innovation and drive of our people. Imagine the type of person who would leave everything behind to make a better life for their families. Those are the people who founded this country and the vast majority of people who come here illegally. Don't we want people with ambition and drive? Yes, there are those who want to take advantage of social services and illegal drug activities, but those are the minority.
Once you get these social issues out of the way, as most polling indicates, you have a vast majority of voters. A combination of a liberty oriented philosophy that sticks to fiscal conservatism and social liberty would virtually wipe Democrats away. Therefore, stop blaming blacks and Hispanics for the demographic trends and start blaming yourselves for limiting the party....
fecal| 5.2.12 @ 10:26AM
.... blaming ourselves for our sexism and racism that doesn't even exist, you idiot?
fiscal| 5.2.12 @ 10:57AM
Yes, fecal, YOU are the problem. When you have policies that specifically go against women and minorities -- even if you have righteous logic to the contrary -- then they are, de facto, sexist and racists BY DEFINITION. By the way, the reverse is also true -- i.e., that if you have policies that favor specific minorities, like the Dems, you also have a form of racism and sexism. The only way to get away from these ideologies is to pursue individual freedom by limiting government's intrusion into people's lives. Let people make their own decisions about things like abortion, gay marriage, and whether they want to help make America prosperous. Keep government out of our lives as much as possible.
fecal| 5.2.12 @ 11:56AM
.... blaming ourselves for our sexism and racism that doesn't even exist until special rights only for certain sexes and races are denied, you idiot?
GW| 5.2.12 @ 1:24PM
Or keep the government to only native born white Christian men.
Bobloblaw| 5.2.12 @ 3:01PM
Why are you mentioning gay marriage? There is no data to suggest the GOP opposition to gay marriage hurts the party. There is not one single state where the voters have directly voted to approve gay marriage. In fact there are two deep blue states, CA and ME where voters voted to REVOKE gay marriAge that had been imposed by the courts.
CAPTAIN OBVIOUS| 5.2.12 @ 5:17PM
Say....you don't suppose....the illogical choices....to persist with the illogical positions....is because this idiot....illogically chooses the illogical positions....in order to use fecal sewer pipes illogically as sexual organs....and justify it illogically?
PolishKnight| 5.2.12 @ 11:01AM
Regarding the war on women and getting away from women's bodies, I recall this amusing observation on the metro in DC with a bunch of "women's reproductive rights" protestors on board. One was talking to the other and commenting: "Germany's free healthcare is so superior to the one we have!"
So rather than wanting the state to keep away from their bodies, they want the state to SUBSIDIZE them. In other words, they want sugar daddies. Feminism is merely an extension of hyper chivalrous patronage. They want to be Scarlett O'Hara before the civil war wearing blood diamonds.
70% of illegals collect some form of government aid. They are basically low wage subsidized labor with the state, rather than the small business owners, helping to pay their wages. In exchange, most have openly racist anti-white agendas and have attitudes that reflect the corrupt governments and chaos from which they came and often wave the flags of their former South American nations rather than the USA flag during protests (even despite their handlers telling them it looks bad for the cameras.) Part of the reason they are fleeing back to Mexico is that they made the USA about as bad as it.
It's rather funny to hear that social issues limit the Republican party when many blacks and hispanics supposedly are against gay marriage. On the other hand, many of them are wedded economically to the Democrats as government workers. In other words, the left is simply an anti-white and even anti-American party which retains power by rewarding their cronies which, for now, include their demographic electorate.
Until... they transform the USA into a South American style nation. Then they can simply fix the elections. Then these immigrants will enjoy a standard of living about the same as they left (see above where they are returning to Mexico.)
Bob K.| 5.2.12 @ 9:54AM
Norquist knows that demography is destiny. He also knows, or he should know, that the recent great Hispanic immigration to the United States has within it an Anti- North American and Nationalistic/Populist sentiment in favor of South/Central American Hispanic culture over North America's traditional American/European culture.
This Nationalistic/Populist sentiment is being largely ignored by our political leaders but it is not going to go away. The existence of groups like La Raza is evidence of that.
Norquist thinks that a Republican Capitalistic Corporate approach to create jobs will work in the Republican party's favor and in this approach he and other pro-immigration politicians are pi**ing into the wind! These Hispanics had no experience with this kind of Capitalism in South America. What they had experience with was with demagogues of the Left.
They will support America's demagogues of the Left in the Democratic party because they know that is the quickest way to political power. It is human nature to do this.
Derek Leaberry| 5.2.12 @ 10:44AM
Norquist is also splendidly obtuse on the immigration question. He trots out Hispanics as an ethnic group to appease at the same time he mentions homeschoolers and supporters of the 2nd Amendment as part of some sort of conservative coalition. Yet most homeschoolers and 2nd Amendment supporters also support less Hispanic immigration and a return of illegal immigrations to their homelands. Norquist can not see beyond his Beltway-warped prism formed the writers he read in college. He's as blind as Mr. Magoo when it comes to understanding the desires of real conservatives out in red country.
The Big E| 5.2.12 @ 11:03AM
25 years ago, there was a small black population in our local cummunity, and almost no Hispanic population at all. Now, there is still a small black population - it hasn't grown at all - but like many other communities, we now have a substantial Hispanic population - much MUCH larger than the local black population.
The blacks in our community pretty much haven't changed in 25 years. Their community is highly dependent on the government, and their families have been utterly destroyed by drugs, alcohol, teen pregnancy, and an extremely high drop-out rate. I can't think of a single small business started by a black man or woman in town in . . . well . . . ever.
However, the Hispanic community here is completely different. There have been a substantial number of new businesses started by Hispanics in the last decade or so. Many of these cater to Hispanic customers, but not all. The proprietors of those businesses have the same economic and business problems that I have, and endorse the same solutions I do.
I know I cannot generalize across populations from anecdotal local experiences, but at least around here, a few things are obvious about the "minority" community:
1. The local black community is dead or dying. They will conitnue to vote Democrat, and their fate/demise is so tied to the Democrat party that even those who are not caught up in the sewer of self-destruction will still vote Democrat no matter what.
2. The local Hispanic community seems to be populated with potential young conservatives. Their economic interests are completely different than those of the black community, and I can't see them, or their children, supporting candidates who want to take more of what they work so hard to earn.
Again, I'm not saying my local experience is universal, but then, all politics is local.
Bob K.| 5.2.12 @ 11:47AM
The same thing has happened throughout cities in Eastern Pennsylvania. Many, if not most, of these Hispanic merchants cater to people on food stamps and welfare.
The difference between the Hispanic community and the Black community is that the family structure still remains in the Hispanic community and has not yet been destroyed by Liberals.
But give it time. That will happen.
Right now, most of the men in Hispanic families, to give them credit, work regularly at jobs at or near minimum wage. These wages are supplemented by Food Stamps and often partial welfare payments. Their wives stay home with the children.
Without decent wages for everyone we are doomed to continue our rush, like the gadarene swine, to socialism and national bankruptcy!
These same Hispanics will vote for it. And much of the blame will have to be put on our version of Capitalism and so called "free" trade supported by Republicans like Norquist.
Derek Leaberry| 5.2.12 @ 12:12PM
In Prince George's County MD, towns like Bladensburg and Riverdale conform to your manner of thought. Both towns have become heavily Hispanic. Shoot arrows my way if you wish, but Hispanics appear to work harder than blacks and are more entrepreneurial. Liberal businessmen I know will admit that- privately.
Yet the similarities between blacks and Hispanics in towns like Riverdale and Bladensburg are too strong. Both groups remain on the low end of the socio-economic ladder. Both depend on government largesse, government jobs for blacks and free hospital visits for Hispanics. Both tend to envy the wealth of whites. Both could care less about the Constitution or the Jeffersonian philosophy of small government. Both could care less about the historical American nation and its people. And both groups will vote Democrat by lopsided proportions and there is no kowtowing the Republican Party can do to alter that fact.
Sheila| 5.2.12 @ 11:11AM
Surprising number of good, race-realist comments in this thread; where's Margie to rage at all the "raycisssts" here? Perhaps at least part of Mr. Norquist's obtuseness on immigration and race can be attributed to his wife Samah, a Kuwaiti Muslim, who has been the director of a purportedly-conservative group which has hosted meetings including CAIR.
Seek| 5.2.12 @ 11:45AM
I'm fully with you. Grover still can't believe that people actually vote on the basis of race. The idea that all races will gather together to vote Republican as part of some "Leave Us Alone" coaltion (the GOP version of the Rainbow Coalition) is a delusionary hobby horse that is two-decades old. Blacks always will vote Democrat because that's where their free lunch is. We Republicans should tap into our inner Sam Francis and go after the white vote.
GW| 5.2.12 @ 1:28PM
Using basic logic, if the GOP is becoming the party of whites, shouldn't the GOP do all it can to keep whites the voting majority? Point this out to a liberal when she declares "GOP is the party of whites"
loulou| 5.2.12 @ 9:47PM
Thank you, Sheila.
Petronius| 5.2.12 @ 11:28AM
Now for the most important group that Grover leaves out. This group has been behind the advance of liberalism from day 1 in 1933. These are the feckless, clueless, ignorant, incompetent, thoughtless weenies embodied by the Occupy amoeba. No thanks to public schools the overgrown 3 year olds are the foot soldiers of the left and a scourge upon the nation. And there are more of them then ambitious productive citizens who haven't the time to be politically active. The Demotrash win for two reasons. It's the Only thing they do. And they'll cheat to win if they have to because if life was really "fair" as they demand it should be, they would starve. This pathetic situation will not end until entitlement spending does. And Romney won't accomplish that.
The Fatima Prophecies will come true and the streets will be awash in American blood as the parasites slay their hosts and take all we worked for in their war against civilization. It's already starting with mobs of black punks hunting isolated white people they can assault with impunity. They are doing it for their savage selves with the blessing of Their Government. When the first armed white with a CCW permit shoots at them, Marshall Law will be declared, elections will be put in abeyance, and the dictatorship we have experienced pro forma for the past 20 years will be sanctioned by default. Grover, your demographic theories are meaningless to all who really decide what happens to our polity; the Idiots. Ambrose Bierce will tell you.
Bill| 5.2.12 @ 11:52AM
Hispanics contributed to the America: poverty, crime, AIDS, unemployment, recession, high birth rate, deficit......................................
cicero| 5.2.12 @ 12:02PM
The demographic/race argument fails to take into account the growing population of black and hispanic middle class voters who, like everybody else, resents having their hard earned money given away to the underclass, and to the wealthy parasites who circle around the ship of state. They will not be voting for the dems and Obama this time for the sake of novelty. They have to get up and go to work every day. They are not economically ignorant. They will vote cconservative this election cycle, as they did in 2010. However, if the Reps fail this time around, look for a new party to be formed by the conservative class - the workers of all colors and ethnicities.
Bill| 5.2.12 @ 12:21PM
Those Hispanics account only 12% of the total population, but take almost 40% of our welfare and entitlement programs, yet they pay no taxes because they are illegals, and the IRS have no problem with that.
GregA| 5.2.12 @ 12:59PM
Sean Trende, chief numbers cruncher at RealClearPolitics, in his book, THE LOST MAJORITY, makes the same point, that as racial and ethnic minorities move into the ranks of the middle class, they become more inclined to vote Republican, because, now, they actually have something to lose because of big government programs.
Bill| 5.2.12 @ 1:31PM
That's true.
Unfortunately, 99% of Hispanics are uneducated and have no knowledge of government and politics, and become ignorant. They just want freebies from the government like those South Americans under develped countries.
I'm sick and tired of hearing that Hispanics do the jobs Americans don't wanna do. That is a LIE.
Americans cannot find job because of those Hispanic invaders.
Bill| 5.2.12 @ 1:32PM
By the way, i don't care whether they vote Dems or Repubs.
Bobloblaw| 5.2.12 @ 3:04PM
But there is no evidence to support that thesis. As they move into the middle class, they finally. Eco e beneficiaries of affirmative action. Also their path to the middle class is a govt bureaucratic job.
Seek| 5.2.12 @ 7:35PM
Movement into the middle class usually produces a mild shift into the Republican column among whites. It does no such thing, however, among nonwhites. The Jack Kemp-inspired notion that "empowering" blacks and Hsipanics will yield a bumper crop of conservatives has gone nowhere. Blacks can be far richer than you or me -- look at NBA and NFL salaries, for starters -- but they're gonna vote Democrat, if they vote at all.
Derek Leaberry| 5.2.12 @ 1:37PM
You are as deluded as Norquist. Read my previous post as I have no time to re-state what I have already written.
GregA| 5.2.12 @ 12:32PM
What Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin are basing their analysis (hopes?) on is that minority voters only care what kind of goodies they can get from the government. They admit that success for Obama and Democrats in general depend upon the dependency upon public assistance of key voting blocks in key states. It's amazing that serious political analysis from the left is based on how enslaved their constituency has become to big government. Granted, for many, continuing the flow of freebies from government is what some voters care about, but their analysis is generally an insult to every minority voter.
Bill| 5.2.12 @ 1:52PM
According to FNC, 2.5 million illegal Hispanics claim $40 billion in child-tax credit in an alleged fraud scheme. I have had enough with those illegals amigos. We must act now.
Seek| 5.2.12 @ 7:38PM
The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Care Tax Credit are two of the most abuse-prone major federal programs. And the scam artists are heavily first-generation Hispanics, many of whom are illegally here, a scandal in itself.
Robert| 5.2.12 @ 10:32PM
Dear Grover,
I didn't read your piece. I didn't even glance at it. I am writing to you to let you know that as long as you keep company with the Muslim Brotherhood and individuals who wish to weaken the resolve of the US against jihadists--whether they have a bomb strapped to their chest or are members of CAIR--I will never support your causes. I will urge every one who claims to be a Conservative Patriot to abandon you. I don't care what your views on tax policy are sir. You are a threat to Western Civilization and to Liberty in this country. Long live Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller and down with you and the Muslim Brotherhood. Dellenda est Mecca!
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