“There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the cohesive power of public plunder.”

— Senator A. J. McLaurin (D-MS), 1906

Lest you discount this because it is from a Democrat, read this one:

“… somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.”
– former Republican Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Eisenhower's administration.

And, if you want to write this off as old paleo-conservative bs not relevant to today's party, here's Bill Kristol, co-founder of the neocon flagship 'think' tank, Project for a New American Century (PNAC), founder and editor of the neocon flagship magazine, “The Weekly Standard,” regular commentator on Fox News, and co-chairman of Liz Cheney's new group “Keep America Safe” (which could be more accurately named, “Keep Dick Cheney Out of Prison”). He is also the son of Irving Kristol, who is known as the “Godfather of Neoconservatism.”

“[Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'…. After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons…. We…are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.”

One of the greatest mysteries of the past 30 years is how the Republican Party, the wholly-owned handmaiden of the wealthy elite of America, have managed to convince so many ordinary Americans to vote against every one of their own interests.

Its not so much that the GOP has gone from shearing the sheep in the 1980s to skinning them alive during Dubya's reign, but that they have gotten so many of the sheep to line up quietly, waiting their turn, contributing their own money to the party to buy sharper knives. It is one of the great propaganda conjuring tricks of modern history.

“There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the cohesive power of public plunder.”

— Senator A. J. McLaurin (D-MS), 1906

Lest you discount this because it is from a Democrat, read this one:

“… somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.”
– former Republican Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Eisenhower's administration.

And, if you want to write this off as old paleo-conservative bs not relevant to today's party, here's Bill Kristol, co-founder of the neocon flagship 'think' tank, Project for a New American Century (PNAC), founder and editor of the neocon flagship magazine, “The Weekly Standard,” regular commentator on Fox News, and co-chairman of Liz Cheney's new group “Keep America Safe” (which could be more accurately named, “Keep Dick Cheney Out of Prison”). He is also the son of Irving Kristol, who is known as the “Godfather of Neoconservatism.”

“[Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'…. After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons…. We…are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.”

One of the greatest mysteries of the past 30 years is how the Republican Party, the wholly-owned handmaiden of the wealthy elite of America, have managed to convince so many ordinary Americans to vote against every one of their own interests.

Its not so much that the GOP has gone from shearing the sheep in the 1980s to skinning them alive during Dubya's reign, but that they have gotten so many of the sheep to line up quietly, waiting their turn, contributing their own money to the party to buy sharper knives. It is one of the great propaganda conjuring tricks of modern history.

“There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the cohesive power of public plunder.”

— Senator A. J. McLaurin (D-MS), 1906

Lest you discount this because it is from a Democrat, read this one:

“… somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.”
– former Republican Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Eisenhower's administration.

And, if you want to write this off as old paleo-conservative bs not relevant to today's party, here's Bill Kristol, co-founder of the neocon flagship 'think' tank, Project for a New American Century (PNAC), founder and editor of the neocon flagship magazine, “The Weekly Standard,” regular commentator on Fox News, and co-chairman of Liz Cheney's new group “Keep America Safe” (which could be more accurately named, “Keep Dick Cheney Out of Prison”). He is also the son of Irving Kristol, who is known as the “Godfather of Neoconservatism.”

“[Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'…. After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons…. We…are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.”

One of the greatest mysteries of the past 30 years is how the Republican Party, the wholly-owned handmaiden of the wealthy elite of America, have managed to convince so many ordinary Americans to vote against every one of their own interests.

Its not so much that the GOP has gone from shearing the sheep in the 1980s to skinning them alive during Dubya's reign, but that they have gotten so many of the sheep to line up quietly, waiting their turn, contributing their own money to the party to buy sharper knives. It is one of the great propaganda conjuring tricks of modern history.