I Am With Norman Goldman The GOP Has NO Legitimacy As A Political Party

[Domingo Tavella]

11. No way other than secession

If you want to get rid of the GOP, you would have to split the US into at least three pieces: The territories south of the Mason Dixon line as it currently is (much further north and of different shape than originally configured), the north eastern regions starting with Vermont, and the pacific coastal states down to San Francisco (CA would have to be split in two.)

Since this is impossible (short of another civil war), one can't say that GOP doesn't belong. The GOP is the seamy side of the American culture, like a really bad relative who won't go away because he is part of the family - you are stuck with it. Also remember that the core ideology of the current GOP is what the Southern Democratic Party was before civil rights were enforced. The GOP will go on morphing into whatever reflects the cultural shadow of the US - in the Jungian sense.