It doesn't have to be this way

In California a progressive affirmative action bill recently failed. If I were a Republican I'd be studying that vote to figure out a way forward that doesn't involve fascism and genuinely dumps racism. 

No ethnocity is homogenous. And there are attractive fundamental principles Republicans used to offer that provide alternatives that could be as progressive as those Democrats offer. 

If for example Conservatives were genuine about promoting genuine meritocracy & a path to inclusion, they would be able to compromise with progressives & recruit.

Trumpism & corrupt corporatism taints those alternatives.  It is obvious too many believe in country club rules, and rigging our political economy.  Markets have their lane, but so does common good.  When you take a common good out of the public good and try to put it into a market box -- like putting a square peg in a round hole --it doesn't fit. You get market failure.

Markets are, or should be, public squares where buyers & sellers come together.  What is sold in markets is free enterprise.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Christopher