Republicans will lose in 2016 if they fail to court females, Hispanics and the youth vote. Considering the Democrats have the majority of all three, the GOP should be sweating.
And it’s not getting better for them when it comes to the youth in America, many of whom are being bombarded with rising tuition rates, dead-end minimum wage jobs, and no hopes of finding employment after graduation. The stalwart nature of youth lives can be attributed to Republicans hindering any chance of making college more affordable and raising the minimum wage.
Luckily, another influential youth has had enough of the GOP. Mississippi Federation of College Republicans chair Evan Alvarez has stepped down from his position, and at the same time has decided to join the Democratic Party.
Alvarez released an open letter explaining his decision, attributing it to he growing extremism at the hands of the Tea Party:
I have come to the conclusion that I no longer want to be the leader of the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans. I refuse to simply let people break the rules and think they don’t have to answer for their actions, admit they were wrong, or even apologize. When I ran for Chairman in the spring, I ran to be Chairman of the Mississippi Federation of College REPUBLICANS, not the Mississippi Federation of College “Tea Partiers”. Also, I believe that the Republican Party has allowed these groups of extremist to have too much of a voice and because of that, the platform of the Republican Party has shifted too far to the right in my opinion.
Trends show that Republicans have indeed shifted heavily to the right compared to Democrats moving to the left. Another reason for Alvarez’s departure was the GOP’s increasing hostility to immigrants and refugees, as well as their constant attacks against women, African-Americans and Hispanics:
Secondly, their far right stance on immigration is not only ignorant, but it is cruel. After all our country is a nation of immigrants and should welcome immigrants from every country. My father was an immigrant from Cuba and came to America in 1959 because of the freedom that this nation offers … The Republican Party consistently says they are trying to appeal to minorities, but this will never happen when we allow members of party to say cruel and ignorant things about Women, African Americans, Hispanics, and other minorities in our country.
While many Republicans have seemed to embrace the anti-immigrant, ant-anything that isn’t white male rhetoric, Alvarez has woken up and realized it wasn’t him that left the GOP, it’s the GOP that left him (and the rest of America).
Good for this young man, and we welcome to the Democratic Party with open arms!
Featured image via Daily Kos and Alvarez’s Facebook
Welcome aboard. You will find that our party is not as well organized as what you’re used to, but, ours is a very big tent and everyone is welcome to enter in and try to help the country move forward.
While the Tparty seems intent on recruiting for ISIS, we are happy to have recruits for progress.
Actually it’s the Democrat party that has more positive approvals for ISIS.
Well, no. The republicans MADE ISIS.
Uh, no they didn’t. Your feckless, cowardly leader Obama did that. But, just keep telling yourself that and maybe one day you will be at peace with yourself for selling your soul to the destroyer of this once great country.
What are your sources re: cowardly Obama? FYI the Bush administration (the first one, the more sane one) trained Taliban fighters including Osama Bin Laden when we were fighting the Russians in Afghanistan. so what’s your point, it happens, a lot.
Child, you are delusional. Please come back when you know WTF you’re talking about! Right now you are embarrassing yourself in front of a large group of subject matter experts and you’re too f-lking stupid to even realize it.
do a little research. .you are incorrect in every post you are making…really?
Actually, no.
OBL hated Americans. Any found in his territory were shot.
Reagan helped the Northern Alliance faction, the enemy of the Taliban.
Obama armed ISIS because he thought they were going to do the heavy lifting because he wanted Assad gone…..so that he, Obama, could be seen “doing something” for freedom.
No that was Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski. They created the terror group to draw the Soviet Union into a disaster in Afghanistan.
Does Mommy know you’re on her computer?
So to disappoint you but that was during a Democrat administration. And the latest Democrat still in office failed to get them after two weeks in the desert since he is actually part of ISIS.
And the repubs trained Osama Bin Laden when we were fighting the Russians in Afghanistan. Good god, this type of thing happens regardless of who is in office, dems or repubs, and ALL Americans are culpable when we allow our elected officials to take us into war.
good thing you weren’t born during Hitlers reign…we’d be speaking German 😉
No, Mr. Obummer, the Pretender in Chief, created ISIS by pulling all the troops out of Iraq and leaving them the room to thrive, spread, and get a firm foot hold.
The arrangement to pull the troops out of Iraq was made under the Bush administration. Try again.
pull out yes…pull out early against military advisors and leaving no support to Iraq IS ALL OBAMA
Yup - all Obama decided by Bush. Funny how that works…
newsflash Mike…Obama has been president for 7 years now….Bush had NOTHING to do with Obama leaving Iraq early against the advice of his military advisors. ..but what else would you expect from a community organizer and a politician who ONLY voted present while a senator..he is only present during golf games, vacations, and campaign parties
Kat says: “Bush had NOTHING to do with Obama leaving Iraq early against the advice of his military advisors”
Not quite. Bush negotiated and SIGNED the SOF agreement that required the US to pull out of Iraq when they did. Obama could have ignored the agreement - as Republiscum regularly ignore their promises and agreements, but being a decent human being, unlike Republicans, he did not. And, incidentally, it was NOT against the advice of his advisors, you lying sack of sh*t.
What a perfect example of the undeniable fact that Repukes are lying propagandist scumbags!
Newsflash Kat - the State of Forces Agreement outlining the schedule for withdrawal of forces from Iraq - and which Obama stuck to precisely - was signed on Nov 17th 2008.
Care to check who was president on that date?
really..you’re going there…what about Obamas pen and phone he brags about? He could have listened to his advisors..he seems to only pull that pen and phone out when the results are another nail in our countrys economic coffin..impressive
Care to actually answer the question? No of course not.
your kidding..you do not know Obamas famous “pen and phone” comment?… he is the PRESIDENT. ..that agreement was signed before it became apparent, confirmed by Obamas military advisors, that is was NOT in the US best security interests to pull out…what good is having a President with a “phone and pen” if he only uses it against policies protecting Americans
Vacations - hmmm. As of August last year, following a 15-day break, Obama had had 125 days in his presidency. Bush, at the same period in his, had had 407. Sure you want to go there?
Now go to how much each charged taxpayers…and your figures are off
My figures are from the White House - but never let facts get in the way of your prejudice, eh?
White House…ROTFLMAO. ..same White House that refuses to state the true unemployment U6 number is 9.9 for November….prejudice. .hardly..try researching true facts instead of being a gullible sheep…a true Gruberite…congrats
Yes…leaving Obama to rightly make his own agreement with Iraq. Obama decided not to do so and so refused to set up an agreement.
Don’t confuse the poor retards with facts, buricco. The propagandist scum of the right doesn’t care about truth, honesty, or patriotism. They ONLY care about spewing their talking-point.
Liberals cannot understand facts and figures…they cannot use them to prove their points, because facts and figures do not exist proving fantasies ….go pet your unicorn
no…Obama not attending his Intel meetings, ignoring intel, and referring to ISIS as the JV team created ISIS
They made Al Qaeda (thanks for the weapons, Bush Sr.!), ISIS (thanks for the weapons, Bush Jr.!), and the Tea Party (thanks for destroying the party, McCain!). Hey, at least they’re consistent.
BS!
ISIS was manufactured specifically BY a successful Republican agenda. Remember, they CREATE the problem, then BLOCK attempts to remediate the problem. Need proof? Check out the source of the 2008 economic upheaval. Bush KNEW that destabilizing the middle east would be to the benefit if the Industrial Military Complex, AND Cheney’s legion of private contractors. It’s ALWAYS about the money. Always.
Obama left Iraq early against the advice of military advisors leaving the vacuum to be filled by Al Queda and now ISIS..maybe you need to do more research and use more than one leftist sight..the economic upheaval started with the crash of the mortgage market created by liberal lending policies forced upon the banks..the mortgage crisis effected every aspect of the economy..economically and historically challenged?
Every single Intel officer around the world knows that the fall of Iraq created the conditions fort which we and the world are now paying. Deal with facts and not political games that prove to solve nothing and do not contribute to any understanding the issues.
Complete BS.
Iraq was basically stable for years until President Present decided that he wanted to oust Assad.
yes…every human loves to live under a tyrannical dictator. .makes for a stable economy 😉
Except I’m not talking about Saddam. I’m talking about the years after the war, in which Obama claimed credit for its stability.
stability from Bush…what is happening now is Obamas stability…which is nonexistent
Everyone that thinks as you do and does as you do, is, without a doubt, welcomed
Progressivism is related to fascism, socialism, and communism. Why do you support such unAmerican things?
LOL. Another well-conditioned minion. Well done, conservative media.
History/poli sci major.
Learn some.
Oh, please! Spare us your ignorant bloviations. ANYBODY who has actually studied history and political science knows you for the propagandist scumbag that you are.
Go troll Breitbart or something. Nobody HERE is stupid enough to credit the BS you are spewing.
you probably should not have reproduced. ..extending your gene line was a mistake
You mean, everybody here, that is progressive, is stupid enough to ignore actual history and political sources.
you don’t know what those words mean, do you.
Actually I know them quite well. Learn something other than progressive propaganda.
Well, we all know that communism and socialism are conflated, thanks to old Joe Mccarthy. But explain to me how fascism and socialism are both left wing. Maybe you know something I don’t.
Socialism is the superset.
It used to be called international socialism, in which the people would align themselves with an international allegiance to party and socialist ideals.
Mussolini, a staunch socialist, became disillusioned with that, seeking a more patriotic, vigorous ideal, and so removed internationalism, replacing it with nationalism. Fascism, as he says, is opposed to socialism as long as it is not patriotic. Remember, at that time, the only socialism was internationalistic.
Both fascism and socialism are collectivist. Everything for the state or the party. Businesses must fall under the control of the state or party. Individualism is considered to be wrong.
The problem with putting fascism on the “right wing” is that it only applies to the authoritarian nature of the philosophy. It ignores the socialism aspect. The “right wing” was the domain of the reactionary…the monarchists while the socialist were on the left, in Europe. A major problem is that if you try to apply it to America, it does not work. The “right” in America wants LESS government.
So, a better political spectrum would be a line running from the left to the right……with communism at the far left….a collectivist and totalitarian philosophy. To the right….would be the other totalitarian and collectivist philosophies. As you move right…you head towards freedom, losing the authoritarianism, collectivism, and totalitarianism. Moving right, you would encounter ordered liberty, the original ideal of America…that would be to center right. Our current system, with many progressive and centralized powers would be center left. Various parliamentry governments fall around here.
The extreme right would therefore be anarchy, total freedom, but no law or governance.
This line describes the world accurately.
This is very interesting, and I appreciate your willingness to explain. It seems pretty backwards to me, but I’ll think more about it.
Unfortunately, although records released after the fall of the USSR proved old Joe was right, the truth doesn’t get much play in the main stream media or on most college campuses.
“At GE, progress is our most important product.”
Funny how the CEO of GE is on the board of advisers for Obama.
Progressivism loves corporatism and crony capitalism.
Okay, that sounds exactly like something I would say about the GOP, even though I know Obama has corporate folk in his cabinet- every president has, since Nixon, maybe since LBJ, I don’t remember.
You say you are a poli-sci major. I prefer facts to dogma, even when it’s my own dogma, and I have never been a poli-sci major.
Can you explain this? I hate to think that *my* progressivism has anything much to do with corporatism.
Fact:
socialism is the superset that holds the subsets of Progressivism, which evolved from Fabian Socialim (Frankfurt school.), communism in all its various forms, fascism and nazism (fascism was developed by the unsatisfied socialist Mussolini who added strong nationalism in place of internationalism to socialism. The nazis added racial BS to it.)
Fascism and progressivism both like to control business. Big business has learned that it can make more money in the long run with corporatism and crony capitalism than by free enterprise.
I thought that fascism WAS big business, running the government. What is that called?
Actually, fascism is the one where the gov’t controls business. Its a two way street. It can be as equal as 51% gov’t 49% business. As long as the business supports the party/government…there are fine.
Now…there are other versions of crony capitalism…… but I don’t know any actual governments where the corporations run society. Do you? I know where they have great influence and use gov’t to get rid of competition. See the US for example.
Mussolini also called facism….corporatism.
I call corporatism fascism, so yeah.
And I think that an awful lot of our country’s laws and also our culture, has been influenced by corporate interests. If government is running the corporations, then a lot of corporations are seeing a lot of high profit- which is leaving the country, and not going into government pockets in any way, not even pentagon officials as far as I know.
I was a sociology major and I still watch society.
That just doesn’t seem like progressivism to me, but like I say- maybe I have misunderstood the term.
The gov’t isn’t running the corporations….not like the fascists did in Italy.
What is going on now is crony capitalism. The corporations help write the laws that regulate them so the politicians A) get money B) look like they are doing something C) they don’t actually have to write laws.
The politicians are happy because the businesses are doing what THEY want…for instance GE goes “green” and the corporations are happy because the tax code and regulations are bearable while hurting smaller competitors. Ted Roosevelt started that with “trust busting.” Big business just stop fighting government and cut a deal with it instead. FDR put it on steroids, tremendously increasing the power of the gov’t for “our own good.”
Who doesn’t love corporatism?
Can fix stupid, fools.
That is why he left.
GOP believes Reagan was great,
BUT
Reagan whose Trickle down multiplies the debt. Or his Al Qeada allies that he nutured, used and then like GWB ignored. Or the criminal contras that he aided while illegally selling arms to Iran. BTW the same arms dealer supplied guns used in the Paris attack.
You need to put away your Obama dildo.
So you support obama’s GUSH UP POVERTY over Reagan’s trickle down wealth?
Nothing trickles down except pee and never has…….
Democrats. ..fighting poverty for 50 years…spent 13 trillion. ..we now have the highest level of poverty in history…way to go…pat yourselves on the back
He was a rino already, so switching to a democrat just made him honest.
This guy is a small time nobody who can’t understand that the idea of the Party is to have an organization that represents the view of a MAJORITY of it’s members. If he wants open borders, he was never really a Conservative anyway. This jacked up brat has no clue, which makes him a Democrat by default.
Thats right, a majority. They don’t represent the majority. the tea party is a small but over represented minority.
See my reply to Jon Davis, but don’t take your blinders of - the truth will probably frighten you.
I’m glad you’re mad because you know that he is right. His dad was an immigrant so who in their right damn mind would want to stay in a group who promotes hate? Shows how good of a person you are calling this kid a brat for simply standing up for himself.
Yes you diehard welfare leeches will always support the party that rewards your loyalty with the money I worked for.
So anyone who disagrees with you is a welfare leech? Your logic escapes me……..
Well no. The 2 biggest supporters of democrats are welfare leeches and the dead.
Actually Pat you are dead wrong. I have been a Democrat all my life and have held a job since 1978. Plus I am still alive and kicking. So in conclusion Pat I would have to say you probably ought to watch something besides Fox and read further than Yahoo. Just saying.
Dave, am proud of you for standing up for yourself, but unfortunately what he said was the “biggest (majority of) supporters” not ALL the supporters.
I just get tired of his kind of bully behavior. It shows an ignorance that has become too common place in this country. He has no idea what he is taking about. If what he says has any veracity at all let him provide some hard numbers to back it up. Saying most, all or some is sloppy and proves or disproves nothing.
Congratulations. You are within the liberal minority.
“with the money I worked for….” I work and pay taxes!! so, it’s my money too. Oh, and I’m a liberal, not dead and not on welfare. You’re just a jerk.
So expecting our government to enforce its legally mandated immigration law is promoting hate? Really?
Try immigrating to Mexico and see how far that argument gets you.
“who in their right damn mind would want to stay in a group who promotes hate?” He is joining the democratic party, the originators of the KKK Amanda, do your homework lady….
Liberals try to rewrite history..unfortunately it is impossible. ..Democrat Party= KKK, racism, welfare slavery…voted against every bill for race equality…they cannot comprehend facts and figures. ..too taxing for their miniscule brains
Your right that he is a democrat. Who cares? This is not newsworthy. He is the age where people figure out their beliefs and values, social, spiritual, and economic, the whole ball of wax. Good for him. Really. My views are more tea party then liberal. Part of the reason the tea party became a movement is too many liberals high jacking the GOP. People forget that just because tea party doesn’t want the government the government involved in funding abortion, or. Supporting other controversial issues, doesn’t mean you can’t have an abortion. It’s just not “American” to expect someone who opposes it, and who needs that tax money for their own family, to pay for it for others. If you feel strongly about people who want gender reassignment surgery’ you are free to contribute. But don’t hold a gun to my head for the money to do this. Just also remember that administrative costs for any government program is always higher than any private group or charity, and is poorer quality.
I’m not even Republican or tea party to know this ex-Republican to be a little brat. Both parties have a lot of faults, but this guy was made recently a leader of the college republicans and he already decides to switch? There’s something fishy about the entire reason of switching.
See my reply to Jon Davis. Enjoy!
This small time nobody just got you annoyed and scared enough to think his actions could change people’s minds so you made these comments. Not so small.
Actually it’s the Democratic Party that has more positive approval for ISIS.
The GOP loses a RINO. Great! That’s one down and how many more to go before the GOP is finally rid of them all?
Until you have nothing left because of your hate and ignorance. Then you will have nothing! I’m waiting on that day because IT IS COMING!
He left the bathwater and jumped right to the sewer!
What a pinhead.
The reason I still am a Republican is because they don’t pander to every constituency an individual might belong to! I am treated like an American. An policies are developed for average Americans rather than women or gay, or immigrants. Some values are assumed; that we believe in keeping more power with the individual than the government, that charity is the province of the individual , not the government, that defense is the most important job of the federal government…
Too bad he’s too ignorant to realize that the opposite of Tea Party is NOT Democrats.
This dude is a little wimp. Listen, I’m non-partisan and I can just say that this person seemed like he was a Democrat playing a Republican in the first place. The only thing he did was show his true colors. The GOP isn’t off base, but that dude sure is.
See ya later kid. You have no idea what you’re talking about, and won’t for another 20 years. Just another empty headed child
TEA Party..not an actual party…it is a belief among Americans for lower taxes, less government, and Constitutional Law…so…you must be for higher taxes, government intrusion in every aspect of your life including full support at poverty level, and anarchy….congrats
People are entitled to their opinion. Mine is that what used to be democrats have moved so far left that Putin had to warn the US about the dangers of communism. Some republicans (having no character and desiring power over principle) sense an opportunity to fill the void left by the democrats and rushed to fill the center left. JFK was much more conservative than the current Republican Party.
Further, why does the Democratic Party think everyone should go to college? Do you not value people engaged in crafts and trades? What about sales people? College is not necessary for everyone. And the reason it is expensive has more to do with liberal policies than anything else
“Trends show that Republicans have indeed shifted heavily to the right” - This is because the republicans were much more centrist than the radical left. The Right just got tired of being willing to compromise and finding that the left either would not budge, or would lie and SAY they would compromise only to renege later. The last Amnesty, Reagan tax cuts, Fannie/Freddie oversight, the damn wall, Most Obama Budgets were all situations where either it was extreme Leftists blocking any agreement, or leftists lied and say they would give something to get something only to abuse the opposition later. Dems are liars and and cheats and the republicans have decided to stand on principles. Dems have stood on thier principles for years, bigger government, more control over individuals lives, dumbing down education to the point of indoctrination, purging US history, all those other stalinistic/bolshevistic actions that have taken place in the last 30 years.
He should actually realize it’s the Democratic party that caters to the blacks, Hispanics and the millenials who want their hand out for everything the government had to offer. Blacks have long been tied to the government apron strings with welfare, ADC, food stamps and empty promises that leave them with no hope.
My father’s family immigrated from Italy in the early 20th century and they assimilated to American culture. They worked hard and Italian was only spoken in the household. Out on the street they spoke English ad my great grandfather demanded. Just because we have a safety issue with letting Muslims in at this time doesn’t mean we are against immigration. We are against illegal immigration and all the temporary worker Visas when we have 25% unemployment in workers between 24 and 54 years of age. Jobs out of college with a BS in general studies or liberal arts aren’t going to get you anywhere in life. We have the need for skilled workers and yet Obama and the Democrats are fully happy to let foreigners come in and take those skilled jobs. He is quite delusional.
Do you NOT realize the Rep. Party is against ILLEGALs NOT legal immigrants? If you think joining the Democrats is a step up the food chain…You are in for a REAL shock. Unless you consider voting for a woman who is a CHRONIC liar to be a step in the right direction. Ahh youth!
Good riddance.
Your Cuban father would be ashamed as you cozy up to the socialists. The Democrats support illegal immigration. Your father was a legal immigrant. Too bad that your new party hated his opposition to Castro.
How does it feel to be among the supports of Che?
Seems I have read this announcement before.
Did he do this last year or at the beginning of this year?
Seems he wasn’t a very good leader. The dems should welcome him with open arms.