It's w-a-a-a-a-y long past time the silent majority spoke its piece.
A trend, or an era, usually lasts 25-33 years in American history, but the Age of Aquarius has been going on since the mid-term elections of 1974, when the old white Protestant men were overthrown and the hippies took over.
And everything on the hippie agenda of the 1960s by 1980 was either legal, or at least socially acceptable.
They've had their time in the sun, and now it's time for them to ride off into the sunset, unmourned.
They've been the Establishment since 1974; time for the anti-establishment, the iconoclasts, the rebels, the conservatives, to take over, sending them to the dustbin of history.
I dunno why the silent majority was so silent during the late 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, and the 2000s; we won a few, but not nearly in proportion to our numbers. I think it's because the silent majority tends to be more tolerant of anomalies than the old hippies, and so we let them get by.
No more.
And the next (R) president, whoever he is come January 20, 2013, should forget all about trying to "buy off" his political opponents, instead rewarding only his friends. It didn't work for Nixon, it didn't work for Ford, it didn't work for Reagan, it didn't work for the first Bush, it didn't work for the second Bush, and cost the future of this country a fortune. They gave all sorts of goodies away--paid for by other people--to the left, hoping to be thought of, and even voted for, as nice guys.
**** that. That didn't work.
The next (R) president had better give (D)s no more than what the recent (D) presidents gave us.....which is damned near not a thing.