XENOJONES wrote:
At some point both parties need to tell the tail to stop wagging. Dems can tell the unions to fuck off because unions are not going to support a Republican and the Republicans need to tell the religious right to fuck off because they will not support a democrat.

The "religious right" probably has roughly the same amount of representation in both parties. A majority of the blacks and latinos who vote Democrat are social conservatives when it comes to the issues involving religion.