GOP problem: 'Their voters are white, aging and dying off'

[stupidicus]

33. that's old news

kinda like the brown demographic tsunami everyone is focusing on. The dying off of their older and graying white supporters only serves to accelerate the impact the browning of America is inevitably gonna have.

As I've seen it and argued it for years, both play a major role, or should, in an explanation for the move towards the rightwingnut cliff the repubs have been on for the last decade and more.

It has been imo, and as noted here before, a "last gasp" effort effort on their part to loot the lower economic echelons of as much money as they can before events overtake their ability to continue to do so, like "socialistic" solutions that things like health care, global warming, peak oil, resource wars (like those looming over water for example, as opposed to ones over oil like Iraq), etc, etc, etc, will inevitably mandate. This is why they are now taking hostages, like with the debt ceiling -- not directly outta this desperation so much as the knowledge that it will likely result in compromises serving the furtherance of their robbing agenda. They are buying time to build their coffers so that when things demand they be eroded, they'll be left with a larger pile after the Piper has his way.

The extremism we're seeing outta them is in response to the many existential threats to their political survival, the white priviledge that has sustained it, etc, that can no longer be ignored by them. I say they haven't been ignoring them, but rather that their behavior in our political world shows their acute awareness (for some time now) of the looming crisis to their stranglehold on political power and their numbered days as Puppetmasters, and behavior which is best seen as that of the cornered rat with zero to very few options of surviving completely intact and unharmed.