DEMOCRATS OFFER TO HELP REPUBLICANS WIN

I watched Chris Hays this morning. His program UP on MSNBC is great. I enjoy it because it is usually on a higher intellectual plain than most news programs. In addition to Chris, there were four guests, one of which was a former Republican advisor.  During the course of the program, something started to dawn on me; they were all trying to find ways to help the Republican Party change so they (that is the Republicans) could win the next election. From time to time, I listen to republican oriented broadcasters. They also are trying to figure out what they must do to win the next election. The conclusion is that they must bring blacks, Latinos, women into their fold. I found this unity of purpose strange. How can it be that Democrats are trying figure out how to make it so that the Republicans win. I think it is because the personality type associated with the Democratic Party wants everyone to win while the Republican personality type wants Republicans to win.

If this were not true, one would expect that the Democrats would be trying to keep these voters in their “big tent”. In addition, the Republicans would be expected to keep people who do not fundamentally agree with their xenophobic governing principles out of their party. Blacks, Latinos, and women seem to be more altruistic when compared to the white, macho, individualist that characterizes the Republican John Wayne image. This begs the question, how would Republicans treat them once these people voted for them? I think I know; every message they send indicates that they would not be welcome: states rights is racist, immigration is anti Latino, and voter suppression is anti minority, for example. I look at Michael Steele, who as chairman of the Republican Party, worked hard to create a bigger tent.  They fired him! Not only that, but they replace him with Reince Priebus, one of the most radical members of that party. Have they not noticed that the old plantation south is all red 147 years after the Emancipation