Crash and Burn, the Republican Story

Because of the nature of their coalition, the Republican party's constant lying--compared to the Democrats' lying-- has long been astonishing to witness. The goal of today's Republican party is to use the government to drain money from the poor and middle class and ship it to the super-rich. That's easy. You start a war and then send billions of tax dollars to a plutocrat who owns the mashed potato industry. You feed the soldiers, who now include women,  African-Americans, gays, etc. That's excellent. But enriching mashed potato billionaires doesn't lend itself to winning political slogans in an election, so the Wall Streeters arrange their campaigns around issues that mean nothing at all to them but a lot to voters who are stupid or bigoted. The campaigns attack women, African-Americans, gays, etc.

Wall Street doesn't hate abortions or fear undocumented Mexicans. In fact, it finds both quite useful. But Wall Street promises Republican voters it will end abortions and fence out people of color, because the promises (lies) help get out the KKK vote. The problem today is that the stupid and bigoted voters have finally come to understand they have been lied to for a hundred years. The Republicans never really deliver.  

Abortion remains legal, and lynching remains illegal. The teabaggers, as mindless as inchworms, have taken a century to feel this out. Like worms who crawl out to die on cement after a rain storm, they have suddenly become disoriented. They back Trump, Fiorina and Carson. They bring down the Speaker. They want to stop the nation in its tracks, which would accidentally slow the surge of wealth to the donor class. No way, says Wall Street. The teabaggers hope to burn down the place and put up a new rotting white house. My guess, though, is that it will be the Wall Street wing that does the rebuilding. They have insurance. Maybe a steel house next time.