The Republican coalition may be strange bedfellows. The truth is though, that they are the least objectionable bedfellows available for these poor unfortunates and we can expect that they will continue to cling to each other. We are seeing a last ditch effort by those ousted from their comfortable and favored positions in society to band together and fight for what they believe is their birthright. It would be surprising if they did not.
Today, things are changing in America and changing fast but they are not changed. Those on the losing end of those changes still see the possibility that they could hold the line but the time in which they can do this is slipping away.
Brothers and sisters grow up in the same families. They eat at the same table. They attend the same schools but experience and interact with their environment in entirely different ways. As long as they had different societal roles to play, society was in balance. That is no longer the case. Women now make up the majority of college graduates. They also win the majority of available slots in post graduate professional programs.
Right now, women make up a growing minority, within the lower and middle ranks, of the leadership positions in American society. Within thirty years they will be the majority. That's going to make a difference, a big difference in how things get done.
American culture, like all cultures is an evolving one. At it's roots, though, it is a culture transplanted from Western Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We did not absorb indigenous cultures already present. The only culture to significantly permeate into the mainstream until very recent times, was the West African one, of our former slave population.
Latin American culture is completely different. It is a culture of primarily indigenous peoples, radically changed by conquest and exploitation from Spain and in the case of Brazil, Portugal. Lots of Western Europeans settled all over Latin America but their impact was completely different than in the United States. Latin cultures have rigid caste systems. Wealth is concentrated entirely at the top. The oppression of the masses has been cruel, violent and unceasing. Oppression of this nature, carried out over centuries, breeds within the subject race, deep resentment and longing for something better.
Hispanics are flowing across our borders in unprecedented numbers. There are employment opportunities here that don't exist for them at home. Once they are here, they realize that there are opportunities for advancement, for themselves and their children, that would be impossible in their homelands. Our system is not a closed system. The more Hispanic Americans there are, the more opportunities for Hispanics are created. Life is good here. You can't keep something like this a secret. The stream of Hispanic diaspora has become a torrent and will no doubt increase to a flood. We can deny Hispanics citizenship, but not their children. Conditions in America are ripe for the influx of Hispanics. Nothing will stop it, not border guards, or fences, or punitive legislation. If you ship them home, they'll just come back. You can kill them but more will follow.
So, here's the bottom line on change in America. Women are on a fast track to leadership in this country. Hispanic population in this country will continue to rise exponentially. By the end of this century, the most numerous and influential single demographic group in this country will be educated second and third generation Hispanic women.
How's that for strange bedfellows, fundo-fascist reactionary scum?
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