The Melting Pot and the GOP's Worst Fear

[Solon]

Due to growth rates in various populations in the US in about 20 years or so, whites in this country cease to be a majority. The USA will truly be a melting pot of various ethnic groups. The birth of the GOP nightmare is coming true. The Bush presidency is an example of an attempt to cater to the current minorities, and making few inroads in that regard.

Even while the GOP contemplates the ramifications of losing the majority of one part of its base (white males), the other part is also losing ground. Christianity itself is threatened from being the dominate religion in the US in the near future. Evident in the shrillness of the Christian Right, and calls for a "Culture War" between them and non-Christians, they see the writing on the wall. The very foundation of both thier belief system and inherent racism which allows them to dominate the debate in this country is threatened.

The realization that thier base is slowly being marginalized to minority status. The GOP is attempting to reach out to those very minorities they have been trying to marginalize for 40 years. Evident in the 2000 election, they have little chance of gaining ground in this regard, and losing the Muslim vote is going to cost them dearly. They face a problem, having to change to a new reality in a party that by its very nature resists change. The Bush administration, in response to these pressures, is apparently, through recent actions, marginalizing certain minorities using questionable means. Under the blanket term "National Security" who knows what they can get away with. With the new executive powers granted to them, they are already in the process of creating a regime very simular to one they admired before, South Africa.

They are in the first steps of creating an aparthied regime, using felony purges and secret courts, and targeting specific groups. Right now it is Muslims, and Arab-Americans, which ethnic group and religion will they target next?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. And let's not forget

by marginalizing ethnic groups, the GOP is pandering to the bigoted arm of the right. The other day, my boss got a piece of garbage from some far-right neo-Nazi group that "proved" the Bible said that only white Christians were to be in this country and in command of the world. It was a mass mailing to everyone in town-if they knew my boss and his fairness towards minorities, they wouldn't have wasted a stamp-and I can't help but wonder how many bozos thought what was said was just terrific. No wonder there are so many Bush supporters there.

Historically, there has always been a backlash against immigrants. My heavens, the Know Nothing party was started to try and keep America for "Americans" (which, oddly enough, meant WASPs, not Native Americans). They never got anywhere, and I hope Bush doesn't get anywhere with his immigration policy.

[Impeach Whistle Ass]

2. The party of the KKK is in deep doo-doo

They're shaking under their sheets!

[SpiralHawk]

3. Yet another paradigm: the legend of the rainbow warriors

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