The GOP and the Ignorance Demographic

We have completed a process that began when the Repubican party conciously went after the disaffected Southern democrats after the Democrats endorsed the civil rights movement.  The result, a bipolar party with the boring low energy traditional component strangely hitched to the can of mixed nuts that have always inhabited the ignorance demographic of the south and intermountain regions of this country.  Motivating the base for the new GOP has meant empowering and affirming the creation science/prayer in school/right to life/homophobic crowd, gold standard economics, anti science anti environmentism, while faning racial sterotypes, zenophobic impluses and paranoia among the gun nuts and the UN is coming for us cohort of our society.  They courted it, they wanted it, now they have it in spades.  A classic case of having a tiger by the tail.  A cure will come, but only when they are totally in the wilderness.  They must be defeated in the House.  Then the GOP can rejoin modernity and redefine a progressive path for legitimate conservative values.  There can be no real progress in solving this country's problems until both parties reject the mythologies and prejudices of ignorance.  Reason, science, facts and a common recognition that for prosperty to be preserved it must be shared in some measure by all.