GOP PLOTS OWN DEMISE

Although reluctantly, there is a trade-off I am willing to make; the more xenophobic the Republican Party becomes the more equalitarian the Democratic Party becomes. Republicans are innately driven by bestial based xenophobia. They exclude black people, Latinos, Native Americans, Asians, young people, women, Muslims, and atheist; anyone or anything that is different frightens them. A few of them, some of their leaders realize that what they are doing is making there party smaller and smaller; thus, forgoing the possibility of winning elections. They seem to call for a “big tent” party but want to do it only for their voters; that is have them in the party to vote but do not allow them to have any say in governance. They want women’s vote but want them to be subservient—do what they are told like a “good” wife. My reluctance in accepting the trade-off has to do with the suffering and the loss of freedom of those excluded from equal access to governance by Republican xenophobia.

It seems to be taking forever for altruism to overtake the selfishness of conservatism, the move from greed to sharing. Sometimes the slow pace depresses me and I become cynical that it is happening at all. Nevertheless, I believe that it is happening, and depending on how you want to look at it, greediness seems to be decaying at a logarithmic rate or altruism seems to be building at a logarithmic rate, regardless of the rate, it seems to be happening. Best of all people seem to realize it is happening—it is not just me. Stephen Pinker’s book, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Amazon.com (2011), uses exceptionally well-referenced statements to trace the decline of violence to ward each other, towards women and toward animals. He expanded on the work of European authors, who predate his work.  

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