September 15, 2009

After 2008 the Republican party has no leadership of any importance and because of this, party adherents are flailing about for answers about their new world. To their horror they live in a world where the Democrats won Congress and a black man became president. It must be a nightmare to them.

To survive, Republican Party members must first make sense of it all. But they can’t right now because they are mired in racism blindness and many are just now realizing that whites no longer control things like before. They feel anger and powerlessness and it shows in the way fringe elements have been directing the anti-Obama agenda this year.

The leadership vacuum has allowed previously unseen and unheard of elements to make news and gain power at Tea Party rallies and Town hall Meetings.

The participants are certainly a diverse group but only with respect to the types of signs they carry and the insults they shout. Their race is solidly white and their messages are inaccurate, racist and mean.

This is not a good way to re-evolve a political party.

The election of Obama was the Republican Party's “Extinction Event” and the aftermath has been an assortment of political life forms called “birthers”, “deathers” and “tea-baggers”.

Where this ends up is a mystery but if the first Republican organisms to emerge from the political muck are any indication, they have a long way to go before the party becomes relevant and is welcomed back to the biosphere.