It appears that the Republican Party is close to collapse. I have seen this coming on for years and am happy that it is finally getting its inevitable justice. There are four factions in the Republican Party:

1) The establishment: financiers, wealthy, intelligentsia
2) Fundamentalist Christians
3) Libertarians
4) Working class

The establishment faction combined with the fundamentalist Christians several decades ago. Many of the fundamentalists are working class. The libertarians have, from the start, been loosely aligned with the establishment and are chiefly made up of working class as well. The working class makes up the lion’s share of the Republican Party. For many decades the intelligentsia has been able to yank the strings of the working class by making them think that the Republican Party is on the side of Christianity, small government libertarianism and the middle class. All the while the working, middle class has shrunk.

The intelligentsia was successfully able to convince their flock that the Democrats were the reason the middle class was going away. It is analogous to Christians making anything questionable about Christianity as ‘non-Christian’. If Christianity fails it is not ‘true’ Christianity. God can never be guilty so therefore it must always be man. Likewise, the Republican Party can never be guilty of killing the middle class, it must be the Democrats. Republican ideology, as RIGHT, can never be wrong. It would be tantamount to thinking of God as wrong. ‘Conservatism’ always conserves the good and the true. It is unthinkable that the good and the true could be evil. The intelligentsia was amazingly adept at redefining the past as the good and the true (https://www.mixermuse.com/blog/2011/12/30/what-republicans-want%e2%80%a6/).

Even though the good and the true in actuality worked against the working class the well contrived illusory alignment of Republicanism with God, goodness, truth and a made up past went to the emotional kernel of working class devotees. This level of fervent, religious-like zeal has pushed their constitutes to the point where even such things as evolution and climate change is thought of as liberalism, facts and research is a production of liberal universities and big government is the communist goal of the Democrats. In extremism there are no in-betweens. All is black and white. You are either a believer or a scientific atheist, knowers of the good and true or swayed by humanism, a capitalist or a communist. This paradigm that boiled everything down to simples has worked extremely well for the right but alas there was President Bush.

President Bush was president for eight years. The Republicans had the majority of congress for six of those eight years. The economy went down more than any other president in modern history under their watch. Unemployment went up percentage wise more and the national debt increased more than any other time in modern history (https://www.mixermuse.com/blog/2012/01/06/all-you-need-to-know-about-politics-1-6-12-2/). The Republican middle class was the group hit hardest by this. With President Obama we have seen an impressive attempt by the intelligentsia to make him the scape goat for their sins. Dick Armey and company brilliantly master minded the tea party to capture Republican anger towards the Republican Party. They were able to keep these folks in the party by letting them vent and then meekly crawl back into the party of goodness and truth – it was brilliant strategy by the intelligentsia.

However, something is different now for the Republican Party. Through all the consternation a rift was created and is growing in their party. Ever since the fundamentalists were brought into the party there has been tension between the establishment faction and the fundamentalists. The fundamentalists distrust the morality of the establishment and their ambivalence with abortion. They also dislike the libertarians as they are godless and pro-choice. Fundamentalists, as the working class would like less government but they make ever increasing exceptions for religious purposes. The libertarians distrust the fundamentalists for this reason. However, now the fatal blow that is working on all three groups (fundamentalists, libertarians and working class) has been struck against the working class that comprises much of the libertarians and the fundamentalists – the inherent elitism in the establishment of the Republican Party.

The intelligentsia has over played their hand. The flock has been dispersed as the flock is increasingly starting to look at their shepherds as wolves in disguise. The ever increasing disparity of the wealthy and the disappearance of the middle class have left their masses numb from the cold truth of impoverishment. The blame, after Bush, is hard to swallow and to add insult to injury their leading candidate for president is a member of the opulent class that they were supposed to be but are dreadfully not. The Pied Piper has gone out of tune. The emperor has no clothes. The Republican electorate has been dumped into the ditch. There are told it was the Democrats fault but their candidate for president is not one of them. He is what they were supposed to be but are not. When they see Mitt they increasingly see the dream that for them has become a nightmare. They are pressured to believe that only Mitt has the way out for them. However, their pre-existing internal divisions are exasperated by the party’s need for populist appeal.

The working class populist is fundamentally contorted by the need for perceived working class leaders and the reality of entitled elitists. This is the final blow for the party. They have positioned themselves on the side of the working class while the working class has increasingly suffered and the party has spit in their face with trying to make their boss president. You would think the intelligentsia would know that most working class stiffs do not like their boss much less want to vote for him – miscalculation on their part. The fatal blow has been struck – Newt and company have blasphemed the holy rite of capitalism. There is a ‘left’ in their midst where it shouldn’t be. The sacred idol has clay feet and God is not very happy. There is confusion of languages and Babylon has befallen the great Elephant – welcome to the prelude of the Democratic opus.