Hey, so I'm still waiting on your ideas on how we are going to descend into Red China-Dom. A general timeline would help too. Don't worry about being super specific.
You'll grant me that the Republican Party cannot long continue to compete as the anti-immigration, small government, anti-payola party, correct? We want our government cheese and we'll accept ever-increasing limits on our freedom to get it.
Perhaps you'll also grant me that the two parties are more alike than not. Most bills already go through on a bipartisan basis, and regardless of the GOP's campaign rhetoric their spending when in total power approximates the Democrats'. That is a tacit agreement that votes are more easily bought than earned, no?
You'll also note that since Kennedy's immigration bill, we increasingly take our legal immigrants from poor brown and black people. These groups tend to vote Democrat, and it ain't because your white guys are prettier than our white guys. These groups also tend to have more children and have them earlier. Coupled with immigration reform (aka mass amnesty) and demographics have inevitably turned against the GOP.
Given these things, either the GOP becomes the Democrat Party, or the GOP becomes increasingly powerless and geographically limited. Thus we either become a nation with one party rule, or we become a nation of two parties with the same platforms and goals. (This ignores the future rise of a La Raza party, but La Raza differs from the Democrats only in how wide the benefits should be distributed.)
We won't turn into a Red China style communist country. Americans don't want the government to tell them what to do. But they do want the government to give them money. So they vote for the money. That comes with some strings (control) but I doubt it'll ever become truly oppressive. But as the producer class continues to shrink, and the leach class continues to grow, our infrastructure will continue to degrade, our credit rating will worsen, and we'll just be a shell of what we once were. Things won't really go to shit until the day that someone's government allowance won't buy them enough food to survive on.
Americans still say that, but we no longer really mean it. Look at the number of people who believe Social Security will not be there for them but don't want the responsibility of handling their own mandatory retirement money. Hell, look at the support for Bloomberg's nanny state. If we can't freely decide how big a Coke to drink, can we really pretend we're still running around on our hind legs?
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