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These drive the right-wing narrative with a vast array of think-tanks, media, public relations, and corporate lobbyists. They may not particularly agree on social or religious issues, but they all hold the same libertarian economic positions that privilege the [[first-class citizens]] (corporations and the very rich.) Astroturf is their home turf. | These drive the right-wing narrative with a vast array of think-tanks, media, public relations, and corporate lobbyists. They may not particularly agree on social or religious issues, but they all hold the same libertarian economic positions that privilege the [[first-class citizens]] (corporations and the very rich.) Astroturf is their home turf. | ||
| − | They have captured the US Republican Party through an ingenious but simple strategem. Provide talking points, activist plans and campaign contributions to the most telegenic (but stupid) candidates that can be found. These candidates are dependent on this right-wing welfare, because they have no ideas of their own. Would-be candidates with their own ideas can be easily crushed in the primaries for very little campaign financing. The talking points and activist ideas are provided by part of the vast network of right wing think tanks that has been developed over the past half century, such as [[ALEC]]. People who want to diverge from orthodoxy are shut off from money, ideas, publicity, and other support, and quietly disappear. This has caused a problem with Republican voters because they actually want to vote for something other than what the orthodox | + | They have captured the US Republican Party through an ingenious but simple strategem. Provide talking points, activist plans and campaign contributions to the most telegenic (but stupid) candidates that can be found. These candidates are dependent on this right-wing welfare, because they have no ideas of their own. Would-be candidates with their own ideas can be easily crushed in the primaries for very little campaign financing. The talking points and activist ideas are provided by part of the vast network of right wing think tanks that has been developed over the past half century, such as [[ALEC]]. People who want to diverge from orthodoxy are shut off from money, ideas, publicity, and other support, and quietly disappear. This has caused a problem with Republican voters because they actually want to vote for something other than what the orthodox candidate supports. That's why they are helpless against Trump: he can use more popular ideas than right wing orthodoxy permits, and they can't shut him off. |
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