Focus groups find the GOP in a battle for its political survival.The Republican factions leading the war on Obamacare, the federal government shutdown - and attacking other Democratic priorities such as preserving safety nets, expanding civil rights and regulating big business - are going to become more extreme and intransigent, top Democratic
pollsters have concluded.
"Understand that the base thinks they are losing politically and losing control of the country... and [feel] a little powerless to change course," the
analysis by Stan Greenberg, James Carville and Erica Seifert found after a series of focus groups in three red states this summer. "They think Obama has imposed his agenda, while Republicans in DC let him get away with it."
Their Democracy Corps report is an illuminating profile of the GOP's three main factions: the Tea Partiers leading today's brinkmanship, the evangelicals lining up behind them, and overlooked but still significant moderates. At the front of this stampede are right-wingers who believe they are fighting for political survival in an era where white-run America is vanishing and they've lost the culture war.
In this paranoid world, Obamacare is Armageddon, the setting for the final battle between good and evil, and the rallying cry that unites the party's factions.
Comment: Just to be clear: it is blatantly obvious that whether democrats or republicans, those who rule America for the past 40 or so years, are psychopaths. By their fruits we know it.