The Republican Party, despite having better policy ideas 97.4% of the time, has been losing ground politically to the Democrats for a hundred years because the Democrats have developed more sophisticated approaches to politics both intellectually and culturally. This refinement has been especially noticeable over the past 50 years, since the advent of the Civil Rights legislation of 1964 - the time when the Democrats, having murdered, maimed, and oppressed black Americans throughout their entire history as a political party, suddenly decided that they were the thought-children of Fredrick Douglass and Harriet Tubman.
(This specific switch will be explored more in the future, but read Ann Coulter's Mugged for the eye-opening truth.)
Do not kid yourself by looking at which party has controlled Congress and the Presidency. Democrats have far more effectively shaped the political culture and have defined the terms of the debate, especially since Franklin Roosevelt positioned unconstitutional actions that have drained America of its strength as being a benefit to individual people. Many of these programs now see their fullest expression today, and include food stamps, social security disability and the Department of Education.
Republican presidents like Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and both George Bushes have simply been allowed to move about a landscape shaped, delineated, and populated by Democratic paradigms. Only Ronald Reagan truly re-shaped the debate, and, while his efforts were admirable, even he only slowed the decay that the Democratic party has subjected the country to since that party's inception.
Democrats control education, the media, and the government welfare apparatus. Through these implements, they have shaped the public perception to their whims, and so fostered a public that is partially or wholly dependent on them. This is their plan - to create an endless cycle of dependency and mediocrity. Individual ambition, expression, liberty and indeed, life itself, are secondary to these goals. It is a mundane version of what Aldous Huxley imagined in the Brave New World.
But the Democrats lack metacognition. While perhaps dimly aware that they are driving the country over a cliff - you can see it occasionally in President Obama's posture and deep sighs - he is too intelligent to fully believe himself - they carry on with an apres moi, le deluge mentality - "after me, the downfall - but I don't need to worry about it. It won't be on my watch. I'm a decent fellow who sticks up for the working poor."
These paradigms which have come to dominate American thought must be shattered. If they are not, our country will likely fall into ruin or subjugation within five to eight decades.
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