To address Nicholas’s main argument: the population is aging and demographics are changing. Well, the politically powerful, but aging, babyboomer cohort will be taking control of national politics for the next 20-30 years. I expect the two major parties will reflect their political preferences, not those of the younger generations, which will be split between receiving state benefits and paying the taxes to pay for such.

As far as the main point, let me put it this way. Republican policy ideas based on corporate and financial sector dominance are anachronistic, as are Democratic ideas based on union and political machine dominance. (Granted, many fail to recognize they’re living in the past – very conservative attitude, right?) The real question is what kind of political philosophy will best guide future party platforms? Neither party will go extinct, but hopefully both will be transformed as they adapt to change. In a two-party electoral structure, there is no ying without the yang.

“Much of the liberal agenda has been adopted throughout Europe, and you may note that it is not a place where people want to flock to. Perhaps adopting these lifestyle changes will make us the same way, making immigration a non-issue as well.”

As already noted by @ofilha, this is typical American myopia and a classic case of fabricating evidence to support a flawed ideology. Reality is that a dozen other nations have higher immigration rates than the United States and all of them, save Australia, Canada and New Zealand, are European nations. Fourth ranked Switzerland’s immigration rate is more than double that of the United States. According to Wikipedia (a simple search to avoid making yourself look like a fool): “As of 2006, the International Organization for Migration has estimated the number of foreign migrants worldwide to be more than 200 million. Europe hosted the largest number of immigrants, with 70 million people in 2005. North America, with over 45 million immigrants, is second.” Given that Canada has an immigration rate more than double that of the U.S. it’s easy to estimate that twice as many people “flock to” Europe as to the United States. I’m sure you won’t let these facts get in the way of your ideology though.

And, in bed with the 1% who see any attempt to bring a degree of equality as akin to Communism. I am not referring to a redistribution of wealth; but a redistribution of the rules which have skewed every advantage to the 1% as an entitlement, while they decry anything to others as ‘socialism’.

There is no longer an equal chance to succeed for most.

If Republicans were calling for more of those who crashed the economy to go to prison, that might show to many that there is a new cop on the beat. Instead,they fight every rule that is designed to level the playing field.

After a point, the clever use of phrases and slogans that get seniors to hold signs demanding government take their hands off their Medicare is going to ring hollow.

Anger and invective on the radio from the right wing fringe can only bring so many voters to the Republican Party. They are preaching to the choir, not enlarging the choir.

The problem with the GOP is that it has an obsession with “green” — as in the color of money — rather than the horseshit described in your article.

The proof is quite obvious if you care to look around you. Not all whites are wealthy, and not all people of color are poor. That much should be obvious to everyone, but apparently it is not.

Thus, not everyone who is “old and white” — a double racial and age bias slam — is wealthy (unfortunately), since I am both, but I am certainly not wealthy.

I am, by most standards, reasonably successful, but entirely by my own efforts in terms of overcoming my “poorness” with education (through hard work and student loans).

Nevertheless, even though I am white, most of my efforts have been in vain.

I have been subjected to discriminatory practices in my life (but certainly not to the extent of most), primarily because I don’t have the proper “credentials” — as in being born wealthy, which is quite easy to tell from a quick glance at a person’s resume — so I have been forced to watch as others with significantly less qualifications and abilities being advanced and protected by their “class”.

The truth is that simply being white is certainly not a guarantee of success, and it is a racial slur to state or imply it.

My problem — along with a lot of other white people out there of all ages — is that we were born relatively poor.

Thus, we don’t fit in with the wealthy crowd, and people like you try to make it sound like “white” is the problem when it is not.

It’s the wealthy, stupid!

Romney supporters almost to the letter. They don’t like Black, Communist Obama.

They are racist. One 94 year old calling the lady who lives next door who is 82, “the colored girl.”

This is the “twilight” of the WWII/Korea generation … and not a moment too soon.

They have way, way, way, out-lived their usefulness.

And something happens as one gets older. It’s a change in the “gray matter.”

They are all fearful.
They are all less intelligent then they once were.
They are all more child like.
They are all angry(er).
They are all sick.

This has/continues to be played upon by Fox News / the Republicans by stoking that fear and lying to them – usually to their own detriment.

This is NOT the greatest generation. This is the MOST selfish one, willing to sacrifice their kids (the baby boomers) and their grandchildren (the X, Y & millennials) for a few more years of pointless, ill life. While simultaneously selling them out by running up record deficits to fuel their pointless wars of aggression, exuberant Medicare and Medicaid entitlements … and yet, they don’t want to pay taxes.

They got to live to 90+ on “the welfare-state” but they’ll be dammed if anyone else does.

If we’re going to cut medicare or medicaid or elder entitlements we should cut them for all, now.

Let them experience some “free market capitalism” before they die, immediately, in the cold, in the street from the shock of what life is like without “government.”

Let the transfer of assets BEGIN!

It’s the Waltons, Adelsons, and Kochs that guarantees, Our governing body is mired in lobbying, cronyism and pandering.