OT: Letter to Future Republican leaders

[Mike Hendrix at dot]

I saw this on facebook today.

This fellow really turned it loose. He wrote from the heart. I hope
someone in the upper echelons of the Republican Party are listening.

No I do not know him, he is not a friend. Someone just clicked the
share button and wala I saw it...... it is not something you normally
see in this neck of the woods.


Eric Garland future trend analysis, social change, economic shift
Letter to a future Republican strategist regarding white people
November 9, 2012
To
whom it may concern regarding the United States federal elections of
2014, 2016 and beyond: Allow me to introduce myself to you, the
existing (or aspiring!) strategist for the Republican Party. My name
is Eric Arnold Garland and I am a White Man. Boy, am I ever “ you need
sunglasses just to look at my photo! If I read the news correctly, I
fit a profile that is of extreme importance to the GOP, as I embody
the archetype that fits your narrative of Real Americans. Just how
much should my profile interest you? Are you sitting down? *My family
lineage goes back to the MAYFLOWER, BOAT ONE!!! (Garland family of New
England-> John Adams -> Howard Alden -> Plymouth colony ->KINGS OF
MUTHAF***IN™ ENGLAND) *I am a heterosexual, married to the super
Caucasian mother of my two beautiful children who are, inexplicably,
EVEN WHITER THAN I AM. *I am college educated (Master™s degree!) and
affluent. *I am a job creator and small businessman. *We pay a lot of
taxes! Every year! *I grew up in a rural area and despise laziness!
*Having started my own business, I have complained at length about the
insanity of federal, state and local bureaucracy “ and its deleterious
impact on the innovative small businessman. *I currently live in the
suburbs in a historically Red state. HOLY WHITE PEOPLE, BATMAN!!! Wow,
you™re thinking “ this is not some Mexirican in the Sun Belt we need
to attract via harsh anti-Castro policies or appeals to œvalores de
familia? - this is the BREAD AND BUTTER OF THE GRAND OLD PARTY, a
Mayflower- descended small business owner, burdened by taxation,
looking out for his beautiful White family in the suburbs of a city
(St Louis) surrounded by racial tension and urban blight! How can I
put this gently? My wife and I are not sensitive to your messaging,
nor did we vote for the candidates you proposed for us this past
Tuesday. B-b-but, what? Aren™t we investors, hard-workin™ white folk
surrounded by same in a manicured cul-de-sac, scared by a vision of
economic collapse amidst the takers in a land of fewer givers? Didn™t
Mitt Romney™s strong family, wealth, leadership history and chiseled
chin give us the uncontrollable urge to high-five him into the White
House? No. May I explain why not, purely for your education, such that
you might be interested in winning an election on the national level
at some point in the future? It bears pointing out that I should be
your Low Hanging Fruit, the easy vote to get as opposed to, say,
African- Americans, Latinos, or Asians “ and you™re not even speaking
well to me. The reasons why ought to concern you deeply. As a
Card-Carrying White Male I love expressing my opinion irrespective of
whether people care to hear it, so let™s get started. >>>>>> Science -
One of the reasons my family is affluent is that my wife and I have a
collective fifteen years of university education between us. I have a
Masters degree in Science and Technology Policy, and my wife is a
physician who holds degrees in medicine as well as cell and molecular
biology. We are really quite unimpressed with Congressional
representatives such as Todd Akin and Paul Broun who actually serve on
the House science committee and who believe, respectively, that rape
does not cause pregnancy and that evolution and astrophysics are lies
straight from Satan™s butt cheeks. These are, sadly, only two of
innumerable assaults that the Republican Party has made against hard
science “ with nothing to say of logic in general. Please understand
the unbearable tension this might create between us and your
candidates. Climate - Within just the past 18 months the following
events have come to our attention: a record-breaking drought that sent
temperatures over 100 degrees for weeks, killing half the corn in the
Midwest and half the TREES on our suburban property “ AND “ a
hurricane that drowned not New Orleans or Tampa or North Carolina but
my native state of VERMONT. As an encore, a second hurricane drowned
lower Manhattan, New Jersey and Long Island. The shouted views of
decrepit mental fossil Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma that this is a
fraud perpetrated on the American people by evil, conspiring climate
scientists is belied by such events and is looking irresponsible to
even the most skeptical. Healthcare - My wife and I are quite familiar
with America™s healthcare system due to our professions, and having
lived abroad extensively, also very aware of comparable systems. Your
party™s insistence on declaring the private U.S. healthcare system
œthe best in the world? fails nearly every factual measure available
to any curious mind. We watch our country piss away 60% more
expenditures than the next most expensive system (Switzerland) for
health outcomes that rival former Soviet bloc nations. On a personal
scale, my wife watches poor WORKING people show up in emergency rooms
with fourth-stage cancer because they were unable to afford primary
care visits. I have watched countless small businesses unable to
attract talented workers because of the outrageous and climbing cost
of private insurance. And I watch European and Asian businesses
outpace American companies because they can attract that talent
without asking people to risk bankruptcy and death. That you think
this state of affairs is somehow preferable to œObamacare,? which you
compared ludicrously to Trotskyite Russian communism, is a sign of
deficient minds unfit to guide health policy in America. War - Nations
do have to go to war sometimes, but that Iraq thing was pretty bad, to
put it mildly. Somebody should have been, I dunno “ FIRED for bad
performance. Aren™t you the party of good corporate managers or
something? This topic could get 10,000 words on its own. Let™s just
leave it at: You guys suck at running wars. Deficits and debt -
Whenever the GOP is out of power, it immediately appeals to the
imagination of voters who remember the Lyndon Baines Johnson (!)
administration and claim that the Republican alternative is the party
of œcutting spending? and œreducing the deficit.? The only problem
with your claim is that Republican governments throughout my entire 38
year life (Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 43) have failed to cut spending and
deficit and debt EVEN ONCE. I hope you understand that your
credibility suffers every time you promise one thing for three decades
and do the EXACT OPPOSITE. Egads “ if you actually were the party of
fiscal responsibility “ you might win our votes despite your 13th
century view of science! Gay marriage - As the child of Baby Boomers
who got divorced (as was the fashion!) in the 80s and 90s, and for
whom 50% of my friends had their homes broken by divorce in the
critical years before age 18, I sure am unsympathetic to your
caterwauling bullshit that œgays will destroy the sanctity of
marriage.? Perhaps if everyone in your generation didn™t take the
period of 1978 “ 1995 to start surreptitiously banging their neighbors
and coworkers, only to abandon their kids because œthey just weren™t
happy,? I would take your defense of marriage more seriously. The
institution of Middle Class suburban marriage was broken by the
generation of aging white Baby Boomers who populate what is left of
the Republican Party, so your defense is wrongheaded and disingenuous.
And moreover, as someone who got called œfaggot? about 127 times a day
from the years 1985 through 1991 “ guess what “ I grew up to be pretty
good friends with actual homosexuals, whose sexual orientation is
usually the least significant thing about them. The Republican
perseveration on homosexuals as any sort of threat consigns them to
history™s trough of intellectual pig dung. >>>>>> That™s quite enough
for one essay, wouldn™t you say? Now, given my initial description as
a wealthy, hard-working, job creating, heterosexual, married suburban
White Male “ doesn™t your current platform look woefully insufficient
to the task of gaining my vote? This doesn™t even get into the
demographic tensions that show that people of my exact profile are
going away permanently in America. You can™t even win on what you
perceive to be œhome field advantage.? Uh oh, wait, I can already hear
you through the web browser, dismissing all of my above points because
THAT GUY WAS NEVER GONNA BE A REPUBLICAN ANYHOW, CUZ HE™S A LIBRUL WHO
HATES AMERICA AND¦ All right, let™s do one last point: Meanness- Your
party is really mean, mocking and demonizing everyone who does not
follow you into the pits of hell. You constantly imply “ as Mitt
Romney did in his œ47% speech? “ that anybody who disagrees with you
does so not by logic or moral conviction, but because they are
shiftless, lazy parasites who want œfree stuff? from œtraditional
Americans.? Wow, you guys managed to follow up a stunning electoral
defeat with insulting the very people you wish to attract for a
majority in the political system! Brilliant! You are losing elections
because being angry and defensive and just- plain-mean is more
important than being smart and winning elections “ and thus you
deserve everything happening to you. If you want to know exactly where
you failed in 2012, and will continue to fail, here it is. Look you
assholes, I™m as traditional an American as it gets, and I do not
œwant free stuff.? I am a taxpayer, and ALWAYS HAVE BEEN. I got my
first job “ dragging bags of cow manure, horse feed and fertilizer
around a farm store “ when I was 12. I started my first company when I
was 28. I have followed the vast majority of the rules set out for
middle class white males (for good and for ill.) And if it weren™t bad
enough that your policy positions are a complete clusterfuck for the
reasons I lay out in great detail, you manage to follow up the whole
exercise with insulting me, my wife, and my friends of every stripe
who didn™t vote for your political party “ all of whom are
hard-working, taxpaying, job creating, law abiding, great AMERICANS of
EVERY COLOR AND CREED. From this white, Mayflower-descended strategic
analyst, allow me to offer you the three strategic options you have
before you: 1. You drastically moderate your platform to harmonize
with the policy positions I present above 2. You disband the party and
reorganize it to reflect current realities 3. You kick and scream and
stamp your feet and call me and my friends names “ and submit to
several decades of one party rule While I do not want a one-party
system, I also don™t particularly care which of these options you
choose. If you look carefully at the numbers on Tuesday, nobody else
cares, either. Just a word to the wise from one White Man to
(presumably) another.




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[nothermark]

Good one. He did make the point that they will not listen. So far
everything I hear indicates he is correct.