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Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M
The Republican party of today is populist, meaning that it feeds on the fears and tears of the underclass. As that group of people has grown due to outsourcing, automation, technology, the high cost of education, changes in the family and secondary effects such as drug use, incarceration, and a failing social safety net it has allowed the vocal ravings of the xenaphobic demagogues to be heard. Rush Limbaugh, Evangelical preachers, Fox News, and the Tea Party are the result. Unfortunately their goal is not to find solutions but to hold on to whatever remaining power they have and increase their domination and wealth at everyone else's, and the world's peril.