Patrick J. Buchanan
2014-02-01 15:58:10 UTC
How the GOP lost Middle America
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Pat Buchanan explains the impact of the Republican Party 'selling its
soul to the multinationals'
Published: 2 days ago
Pat Buchanan was twice a candidate for the Republican presidential
nomination and the Reform Party's candidate in 2000. He is also a
founder and editor of The American Conservative. Buchanan served three
presidents in the White House, was a founding panelist of three national
TV shows, and is the author of nine books.
His latest book is "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to
2025?"
(I can tell you right now that "white" america will not survive)
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Out of the Republican retreat on Marylands Eastern shore comes word
that the House leadership is raising the white flag of surrender on
immigration.
The GOP will agree to halt the deportation of 12 million illegal aliens
and sign on to a blanket amnesty. It only asks that the 12 million not
be put on a path to citizenship.
Sorry, but losers do not dictate terms. Rich Trumka of the AFL-CIO says
amnesty is no longer enough. Illegal aliens must be put on a path to
citizenship and given green cards to work and join unions.
Rep. Paul Ryan and the Wall Street Journal are for throwing in the
towel. Legalize them all and start them on the path to citizenship.
A full and final capitulation. Lets get it over with.
To understand why and how the Republican Party lost Middle America, and
faces demographic death, we need to go back to Bush I.
At the Cold Wars end, the GOP reached a fork in the road. The
determination of Middle Americans to preserve the country they grew up
in suddenly collided with the profit motive of Corporate America.
The Fortune 500 wanted to close factories in the USA and ship production
abroad where unions did not exist, regulations were light, taxes were
low, and wages were a fraction of what they were here in America.
Corporate America was going global and wanted to be rid of its American
workforce, the best paid on earth, and replace it with cheap foreign
labor.
While manufacturing sought to move production abroad, hotels, motels,
bars, restaurants, farms and construction companies that could not move
abroad also wanted to replace their expensive American workers.
Thanks to the Republican Party, Corporate America got it all.
U.S. factories in the scores of thousands were shut down, shedding their
American workers. Foreign-made goods poured in, filling U.S. stores and
killing the manufacturers who had stayed behind, loyal to their U.S.
workers.
The Reagan prosperity was exported to Asia and China by the Bush
Republicans. And the Reagan Democrats reciprocated by deserting the Bush
Republican Party and going home. But this was not the end of what this
writer described in his 1998 book, The Great Betrayal.
As those hotels, motels, restaurants, bars, fast-food shops, car washes,
groceries and other service industries also relished the rewards of
cheap foreign labor, they got government assistance in replacing their
American workers.
Since 1990, some 30 to 40 million immigrants, legal and illegal, have
entered the country. This huge increase in the labor force, at the same
time the U.S. was shipping factories abroad, brought massive downward
pressure on wages. The real wages of Middle Americans have stagnated for
decades.
What was wildly wonderful for Corporate America was hell on Middle
America. But the Republican Party had made its choice. It had sold its
soul to the multinationals. And as it went along with NAFTA, GATT, fast
track and mass immigration, to appease Corporate America, it lost Middle
America.
The party went with the folks who paid for their campaigns, only to lose
the folks who had given them their landslides.
When Republicans accede to the demand for amnesty, and immigration
without end, it does not take a political genius to see what is going to
happen. For it is happening now.
Almost all of those breaking our laws, crossing the border and
overstaying their visas are young, poor or working class. Between 80 and
90 percent are from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
They are Third World peoples. They believe in government action and
government programs that provide their families with free education,
health care, housing, food and income subsidies. They are not Bob Taft
or Barry Goldwater conservatives.
Perhaps 85 percent of all immigrants, legal and illegal, more than a
million a year now, are people of color. And while over 70 percent of
Hispanics and Asians voted Democratic for Obama, among voters of African
descent, the Obama vote was well above 90 percent.
Four of every five U.S. citizens of Asian, African and Hispanic descent
vote Democratic in presidential elections. And it is their numbers that
are growing. Already they are well over a third of the U.S. population.
As has been observed often, America, demographically, is going to look
like California. And while Nixon won California all five times he was on
a national ticket, and Reagan won California in landslides all four
times he ran, California has not gone Republican in six straight
presidential elections.
Democrats outnumber Republicans there by more than two-to-one in the
congressional delegation and in the State Assembly, and not a single
Republican holds statewide office.
If Bush I had built that border fence back in 1992 and declared a
moratorium on legal immigration that fall, as many implored him to do,
the party of the Bushes would not be facing its demise well before
mid-century.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/how-the-gop-lost-middle-america/
======================
Pat Buchanan explains the impact of the Republican Party 'selling its
soul to the multinationals'
Published: 2 days ago
Pat Buchanan was twice a candidate for the Republican presidential
nomination and the Reform Party's candidate in 2000. He is also a
founder and editor of The American Conservative. Buchanan served three
presidents in the White House, was a founding panelist of three national
TV shows, and is the author of nine books.
His latest book is "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to
2025?"
(I can tell you right now that "white" america will not survive)
======================
Out of the Republican retreat on Marylands Eastern shore comes word
that the House leadership is raising the white flag of surrender on
immigration.
The GOP will agree to halt the deportation of 12 million illegal aliens
and sign on to a blanket amnesty. It only asks that the 12 million not
be put on a path to citizenship.
Sorry, but losers do not dictate terms. Rich Trumka of the AFL-CIO says
amnesty is no longer enough. Illegal aliens must be put on a path to
citizenship and given green cards to work and join unions.
Rep. Paul Ryan and the Wall Street Journal are for throwing in the
towel. Legalize them all and start them on the path to citizenship.
A full and final capitulation. Lets get it over with.
To understand why and how the Republican Party lost Middle America, and
faces demographic death, we need to go back to Bush I.
At the Cold Wars end, the GOP reached a fork in the road. The
determination of Middle Americans to preserve the country they grew up
in suddenly collided with the profit motive of Corporate America.
The Fortune 500 wanted to close factories in the USA and ship production
abroad where unions did not exist, regulations were light, taxes were
low, and wages were a fraction of what they were here in America.
Corporate America was going global and wanted to be rid of its American
workforce, the best paid on earth, and replace it with cheap foreign
labor.
While manufacturing sought to move production abroad, hotels, motels,
bars, restaurants, farms and construction companies that could not move
abroad also wanted to replace their expensive American workers.
Thanks to the Republican Party, Corporate America got it all.
U.S. factories in the scores of thousands were shut down, shedding their
American workers. Foreign-made goods poured in, filling U.S. stores and
killing the manufacturers who had stayed behind, loyal to their U.S.
workers.
The Reagan prosperity was exported to Asia and China by the Bush
Republicans. And the Reagan Democrats reciprocated by deserting the Bush
Republican Party and going home. But this was not the end of what this
writer described in his 1998 book, The Great Betrayal.
As those hotels, motels, restaurants, bars, fast-food shops, car washes,
groceries and other service industries also relished the rewards of
cheap foreign labor, they got government assistance in replacing their
American workers.
Since 1990, some 30 to 40 million immigrants, legal and illegal, have
entered the country. This huge increase in the labor force, at the same
time the U.S. was shipping factories abroad, brought massive downward
pressure on wages. The real wages of Middle Americans have stagnated for
decades.
What was wildly wonderful for Corporate America was hell on Middle
America. But the Republican Party had made its choice. It had sold its
soul to the multinationals. And as it went along with NAFTA, GATT, fast
track and mass immigration, to appease Corporate America, it lost Middle
America.
The party went with the folks who paid for their campaigns, only to lose
the folks who had given them their landslides.
When Republicans accede to the demand for amnesty, and immigration
without end, it does not take a political genius to see what is going to
happen. For it is happening now.
Almost all of those breaking our laws, crossing the border and
overstaying their visas are young, poor or working class. Between 80 and
90 percent are from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
They are Third World peoples. They believe in government action and
government programs that provide their families with free education,
health care, housing, food and income subsidies. They are not Bob Taft
or Barry Goldwater conservatives.
Perhaps 85 percent of all immigrants, legal and illegal, more than a
million a year now, are people of color. And while over 70 percent of
Hispanics and Asians voted Democratic for Obama, among voters of African
descent, the Obama vote was well above 90 percent.
Four of every five U.S. citizens of Asian, African and Hispanic descent
vote Democratic in presidential elections. And it is their numbers that
are growing. Already they are well over a third of the U.S. population.
As has been observed often, America, demographically, is going to look
like California. And while Nixon won California all five times he was on
a national ticket, and Reagan won California in landslides all four
times he ran, California has not gone Republican in six straight
presidential elections.
Democrats outnumber Republicans there by more than two-to-one in the
congressional delegation and in the State Assembly, and not a single
Republican holds statewide office.
If Bush I had built that border fence back in 1992 and declared a
moratorium on legal immigration that fall, as many implored him to do,
the party of the Bushes would not be facing its demise well before
mid-century.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/how-the-gop-lost-middle-america/