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Will the GOP Ever Change?
So, my eagle-eyed sister the lawyer sends me an article which really makes me wonder how or why we should take seriously the so-called research conducted by academics who study politics, research which often winds up being used by the Fake News media to give those so-called experts something to talk about on their daily news shows.
Because the truth is that most academics who study politics and political behavior tend to be liberals and what they study and how they then describe the results of their studies becomes the accepted and promoted narratives utilized by the Democrats to create and promote the party ‘line’ every two years.
Well, it used to be every two years when political campaigns started every other year around Labor Day and ran until the first Tuesday in November which was always Election Day.
But now, thanks to all-day, all-night television news and the proliferation of social media, the political spieling never stops so there’s plenty of opportunities for the so-called academic experts to provide the so-called pundits with something new to say, or something old to say which sounds like its new.
What my sister sent me was some so-called research that comes out of Cornell University which has found that the urban-rural political divide (urban = liberal, rural = conservative) which usually breaks along racial…