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I grew up to believe that Republicans were the elite, moneyed foks who never got their hands dirty and believed that the working men or women were beneath their interests.

That seems to be no longer the case.

More and more working class people are attracted to the ideas that are repugnant to the traditional GOoPer.

This is mostly because of the defection of a segment of former Democrats who hate immigration, desire isolation and, frankly, have racist opinions.

I won't get into the racist part because many Republicans believe in the traditional party of Lincoln. Anything but racist.

But there is no denying that the conservatives do offer a home to the disaffected and the angry mob elements of the American system.

This article is interesting.

For Republicans, Mounting Fears of Lasting Split

Basically, the idea is that Trump and Cruz, both rampant nativist, racist demagogue types, if not the real thing, have hijacked a segment of the dependable wing of disgruntled working class people; that the rent in the party represented by the current primary rhetoric, will become permanent.

The party of John McCain and Lyndsey Graham on one side and the bigots and the ideologues on the other.

In my lifetime there have been many, well several, third party movements. Notably the George Wallace secession people from the Sixties. Those were democrats. Before that there were, in fact, an American nazi like movement. Now there are the anti-government people.

This anti-government gang now showing up in Oregon has only one way to gain power other than arms and insurrection. It is to get under the bigger tent of the GOP.

But that is not OK for them. Some tasseled loafer dude will be forever telling to take off their goddam cowboy hats and sit down. To clean up their act and be more authentically American instead of some kind of troglodyte.

It is not my problem.

But it does worry me in that I believe in the two party system and doubt the sustainability of a three or four party system.

There has always been room for the outlier in the American system, the lone dissenting voice. Even in Congress. But an entire movement which could wreck half the present system would threaten the basic understanding of our two party system. Undermine it. Slow it down worse than anything we have seen so far.

Look at the Congress now and picture more dissent than there is at this time.

And so on.

Get your popcorn out. The traditional Republican Party could be imploding. Just like the Democratic Party did when it got hijacked by the southern bigots many years ago. Can anyone remember Estes Kefauver? The dupe of the right? A nice guy who ended up the symbol of a racist faction who never drew another quiet breath afterward.

And so on.

Just give me my popcorn.

Labels: GOoPers, right wing whack jobs