the cultural revolution of the 1960s has been played out in politics since that time.
the people under attack from Republicans are all groups that gained political and social capital over the decades since the powers-that-be came to fear the power of everyday Americans who were not willing to live in a world controlled by religious conservative white geezers telling us all what's for our own good.
the gerrymandering of the 2010 elections was intended to give Republicans power even when the majority of people in this nation disagree with their version of how the U.S. should work.
if they don't back off of their extreme right-wing positions, I don't know what will happen - because people aren't going to accept their view of the world by force - which is what they are doing now - they are, BY FORCE, trying to remove rights from women for health care services.
If they continue to deny rights to people, what I wonder is what people will do when their legislative options and the power of the vote has been taken away by gerrymandering.
It's impossible to know what sort of situations lie ahead, in terms of the electorate doing one thing or another in response, but it's certain that Republicans must now kowtow to the most right-wing extremist positions in this nation to be able to run for office in all but the most liberal parts of the nation.
Maybe Republicans will "take out" members of their own party through dirty tricks to save their entire franchise from extinction. This would be one of the best solutions, as far as the functioning of society goes. But who knows.
Maybe those Republicans who see that the cultural wars have been lost by the rabid christo-fascists will move to the democratic party, and the Republican party will, as some within it have advised, become a white nationalist party that will die off.
In which case, the opportunity for a more left wing party would emerge as the Democrats would have to be judged on economic policy and the white nationalists will have to move to economic populism to continue to have any political voice.
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