Monday, November 19, 2012

Transracial Society

"The GOP can't win without the support of minorities" this is the narrative. The question coming from that is, how can they attract people who vote democrat?

The answer is, they can't.

Their party isn't based on race, it's based on ideology. Sure, there's a large overlap between the two, but fundamentally, it's their ideology that's turning people off to them.

It just so happens that their ideology stems from an earlier time (which is what they want to "conserve") where race actually did matter, to the point where you were black if you had 1/32nd African ancestry.

This is a transracial problem; we exist right now in the grey area between the racial and the postracial societies. The foundation of conservative ideology is a relic of the racial society, and republicans are beginning to understand that there is no way that they can win in a postracial society, but they can't understand why. The GOP is aging, beginning to die out, and eventually the Democrats will split into two new parties. For a time, we will see 3 major parties in the US, but over time it will decay back into a 2-party system.

We are living in the transracial era.

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