Tipping point.

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41. If I can avoid a "hide," the Party pretty much gave up on a sound ideology for change...

...after the McGovern fiasco, and has not only stayed silent about the aims and goals of our past leaders, but indeed about the very notion of a line-item list of specific goals. It is high-fructose technocratic jargon-jive which is the odor of the day. Trouble is, the Republicans have not remained silent about their daily, yearly, generational pounding of the anvil. Bad as it is, the GOP has an outlook readily understood by voters; the Democrats do not, which readily breeds distrust. It seems the only time Party "leaders" start emitting hormones and peculiar body smells is over a few social issues, like abortion and guns. A sound party progam can absorb the dog fight over a woman's right to choose and avoid the slippage that right has suffered. But it cannot gain anything (only lose) over gun control, where the constituency is a rather small, elitist group sprinkled over Party operatives, a declining MSM, and a shrinking academic "activism." That is why the Party's technocratic approach is high fructose: All Cokes, no meat & potato.