Reply #27: The GOP has alienated suburban and better-educated voters,....

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so they find an even greater proportion of their membership consisting of rednecks and lumpens who are plenty angry, but who actively work against their own interests by demanding policies that will harm them, such as abolishing all social spending and cutting taxes for billionaires. They do this because they're convinced that absolute self-sufficiency is the American way, but the more they get their way, the more enraged they become -- because their agenda is one that screws them over. But you can't tell them that. Perhaps what they need to happen, for starters, is to get shellacked again in 2010 and 2012, so that they'll realize they can't lead.