Thousands of members of those constituencies die every day; thousands of members of other constituencies reach voting age.

The Republicans not only wrote off much of the United States and future generations by following their principles, worse they wrote off those areas and people by violating them.

Room for a new second party in a few years?

“I think the problem here is that, as embodied politically in the Republican Party, conservatism isn’t about ideas. As William Greider pointed out long ago, the Republican Party isn’t the party of conservative ideas; it’s the party of conservative constituencies. And conservative constituencies love their cars and hate having to pay to use what they’d just as soon have for free. Suburban conservatives are also obsessive about their property values, and convinced that increasing density will damage them. This, I think, accounts for the paradox that it’s lefties who are more free-market on these sorts of issues than the Right is; lefties are disproportionately urban and interested in the quality of urban life. It’s interests, not ideas, that drive the policy preferences.”

(Based on old principles, not recent corrupt practice).

Total personal responsibility and self reliance, with patriotism throw in. Thrift and conservation of resources. Community benefits with very little government role.

The recent corrupt practice is expanding the government to redistribute income up, which fits an SUV with a single occupant. They need to get back to basics.

Fire Skelos!