[icenine]

It is like those small political parties in Europe and the UK who sort of want everything to go back to being white again. The Republicans have not realized yet that it is going to be impossible to win the Presidency, and as time goes on, a majority in the Congress, on just appealing to white people. Either they change their policies or they shrivel up and die. The current rigid ideology of candidates afraid of losing tea party support is sort of like a drowning man who is grasping at inflatable liferafts which have holes in them that are slowly leaking. They may keep him alive for the moment, but the sharks of diversity are swimming about ready to chomp them to death as it were.

The Liberal Party (of Gladstone) was superceded by the Labor Party in the late 30s ( I want to say 1936 but it is fuzzy) in the UK and is now the very small Democratic-Liberal sliver of Parliament keeping Cameron in his seat in a coalition with the Tories. In America the current shift away from the GOP to a new alternative may have its seeds in Rand Paul, but he keeps messing up by angering the dreamers. Someone like Paul could though peel off scores of disaffected youths (white and minority, as in Ferguson) and create a new political coalition that could spell the end of the GOP as the main alternative to the Democrats.