With declining religion among young and end of Confederate fetish, what's GOP got left?
Their gay marriage, abortion, and a couple of other positions were primarily appeals to religious folks, whose numbers are declining among the young.
The dog whistle racism on blacks is out for an election or two (okay, maybe just one), and the slightly more overt, passive aggressive racism of confederate worship is finally dead at the national and state level forever.
Bashing Latinos is a path to defeat at the national level.
Their economic policy of "let bankers and corporations run wild" probably chafes even many Republican voters (though they only seem to admit it to pollsters).
People across the board seem to be sick of our "War of Terror," on Muslims.
The ginned up World War with Russia is not going to be popular once regular folks realize that's what's in the pipe.
The only thing that seems to be keeping the GOP alive right now is corporate Democrats refuse to decisively put a stake in the core economic policies of deregulation, privatization of government services that diverts our tax dollars to private profits, and low taxes on the rich.
Likewise, corporate Democrats are not acting on a different foreign policy of essentially a unipolar world governed by banks for the profit of the 1%. For all the talk of spreading democracy, both parties will back any coup against a democratic government that tries to put the interests of their own people ahead of the demands of bankers and transnational corporations like oil companies in the Middle and Central Asia, banana plantations in Central America, and sweatshops everywhere else.
In Libya and Syria, Obama has done essentially what Bush did to Iraq: replace a government they don't like with no functional government at all.
And of course that foreign policy requires a military roughly as big as the rest of the world combined and several times larger than our top two potential adversaries, Russia or China, and even a couple of times larger than both of them put together.
A truly multipolar foreign policy that didn't use our military as a way for corporations and banks to make other countries an offer they can't refuse would allow our military to shrink to a truly defensive size, and any troops killed in that role would truly be fighting to preserve our freedom. But neither of the two major parties are going to do this.
What keeps the GOP alive?
The same thing that keeps the Washington Generals alive despite their existence long losing streak to the Harlem Globetrotters: they provide the illusion of competition.
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That's all I got. 
