| | How sad. That state was once home to intellectual giants. The simple fact is, that to a large degree, we will all get the government the majority deserves. Our educational system has turned our more and more progressive graduates while the evangelical organize politically more and more. How sad to find our selves viewing those two distasteful offerings.
The GOP presents a potential path to a political environment where we could have a national fight between big government on one hand, and a limited government based upon individual rights on the other.
That small, but energetic group of elected libertarian conservatives are the toe in the door, the wedge, the place to start in a capture of a major political party.
That's crucial because minority parties, while they can and do influence a bit, and they can be incubators for ideas, but they don't win elections - they don't change the political direction of a nation on their own.
But, with an electorate made up of so many people who think Creationism and prayer are the key political issues, and others who have become socialized in the school system to accept far left thinking... it doesn't look good.
The GOP's current factionalism is likely to resolve in one of three ways:
1.) Marginalize and phase out the religious activism but stay "Establishment" Republicans,
2.) Marginalize and phase out the religious activism and go libertarian, or
3.) keep the religious activism and internal factionalism.
Only one of those paths has a viable future, but the party doesn't have much time, and Establishment only thinks very short-term and has neither morals nor ideology. And nothing will convince the dedicated religious right to change their ways... it doesn't look good.
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