Republicans Need A Generational Change In Attitude
Stan Grimes
May 07, 2009
What is it exactly making our conservative neighbors nervous? I have a theory, I always do. I think it´s a generational nervousness. You know, like when you first let your son or daughter use your car to go out with their friends. I think that is what the Republicans are going through. They don´t want to lose their little child to adulthood. Change is difficult to cope with sometimes, especially change in a national mood.
The mood of America´s new generation of voters is one of restlessness. The average Joe Six-Pack, if I can be so bold to coin an Alaskan adage, wants a better life than his/her parents are currently experiencing. Joe´s parents are up to their eyeballs in debt with no foreseeable relief. That´s the reason on November 20th of 2008 an electoral landslide left the old conservative mindset buried in its own moral rubble.
Americans not only want a better future for themselves and their children, but they are also tired of our public image. They´re tired of their country looking like a bunch of bullies ready to take every "rogue" nation to the woodshed and beat the tar out of them. The old negativism is something Americans want to bury along with the tired ideas of the Republican Party.
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to follow the ideologies of the GOP, but if he could see his party now…he´d hang his head in shame. Lincoln stood for equality for humankind, progressive ideas, and unity of thought.
Now, however, the party of "No" is only a narrow thinking and embittered group of far-right senior citizens. They have nowhere to go and no one to lead them there. Tax cuts and war will not solve America´s problems. Trickle down economics have hit rock bottom and its biggest advocates won´t give up easily.
It will take a generational shift in Republican ideology to overcome their fall from power. The sooner the old GOP guard realizes this reality the sooner they will be able to regain confidence in today´s geopolitical environment. Simply saying "no" will not be the pivotal action they´re looking for. Sending five or six of its representatives among their American flock telling everyone they want to start a "New America," shows how out of touch they have become. Americans still like the "Old America," just with new ideas at its foundation…no more, no less.
Republicans have lost the election and the sooner they wake up and accept their loss the sooner they can find someone new to lead them with new ideas, new direction, and new attitudes. The time is now for a Republican euphony.
The mood of America´s new generation of voters is one of restlessness. The average Joe Six-Pack, if I can be so bold to coin an Alaskan adage, wants a better life than his/her parents are currently experiencing. Joe´s parents are up to their eyeballs in debt with no foreseeable relief. That´s the reason on November 20th of 2008 an electoral landslide left the old conservative mindset buried in its own moral rubble.
Americans not only want a better future for themselves and their children, but they are also tired of our public image. They´re tired of their country looking like a bunch of bullies ready to take every "rogue" nation to the woodshed and beat the tar out of them. The old negativism is something Americans want to bury along with the tired ideas of the Republican Party.
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to follow the ideologies of the GOP, but if he could see his party now…he´d hang his head in shame. Lincoln stood for equality for humankind, progressive ideas, and unity of thought.
Now, however, the party of "No" is only a narrow thinking and embittered group of far-right senior citizens. They have nowhere to go and no one to lead them there. Tax cuts and war will not solve America´s problems. Trickle down economics have hit rock bottom and its biggest advocates won´t give up easily.
It will take a generational shift in Republican ideology to overcome their fall from power. The sooner the old GOP guard realizes this reality the sooner they will be able to regain confidence in today´s geopolitical environment. Simply saying "no" will not be the pivotal action they´re looking for. Sending five or six of its representatives among their American flock telling everyone they want to start a "New America," shows how out of touch they have become. Americans still like the "Old America," just with new ideas at its foundation…no more, no less.
Republicans have lost the election and the sooner they wake up and accept their loss the sooner they can find someone new to lead them with new ideas, new direction, and new attitudes. The time is now for a Republican euphony.
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