Recent Gallup survey results do not bode well long term for the GOP. Not only do independent voters align with Democrats far more than Republicans as demonstrated by the first chart below from the Washington Post, but on many issues, but independents also far more accepting of others and different perspectives than the Christofascist/Tea Part controlled GOP as set out in the second chart.
Republicans were only more permissive than Democrats and independents on three measures and they all had to do with the killing of people and animals — the death penalty, buying and wearing clothing made of animal fur and medical testing on animals. Interpret that as you will.
Independents were closer to Democrats than to Republicans on 13 of the 18 issues outlined. The only exceptions were medical research using embryonic stem cells, the death penalty, suicide and human cloning. (On cloning animals, Democrats and Republicans were both less permissive than independents, and in equal measure).
When people are asked to identify themselves by political ideology, Americans may appear to be center-right, but independents look more like Democrats than Republicans on moral issues.
This does not bode well for Republicans as the composition and conscience of the country continues to change. We are slowly becoming less religious, more diverse and increasingly open-minded. That is completely at odds with today’s Republican Party.
In short, the GOP seems to be continuing towards its own Jones Town like mass suicide not many years down the road. Having sold its soul to the worse and most hate filled elements of the extreme Christian, the GOP seems to have no rip cord to pull to avoid a very, very hard landing.
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