Get Ready for a Democratic Era

HEADING LEFT  - Music to an ailing and polorized nation.

The tax (only the middle class and poor) and spend Republican Party as I’ve pointed out before, is heading for the irrelevant corner for a decade or two. It will take us that long to clean up the mess they’ve left our children and grandchildren…that is…if the damage can be undone.

Karl Rove’s grandest aspiration was to create a Republican majority that would dominate American politics for a generation or more. But as the effects of his distinctive brand of fear-mongering fade, it’s the Democrats who are poised to become the country’s majority party — and perhaps for a long time to come.

Many conservatives have insisted that the Democrats’ wins in the 2006 midterm elections, as well as their recent pickups in some 2007 races, were mere blips. They wish. Political, ideological, demographic and economic trends are all leading toward durable Democratic majorities in Congress, control of most statehouses and, very possibly, the end of the decades-old GOP hammerlock on the electoral college.