Goals of the Wealthy and Powerful

I've been trying to make rational sense of the adamant Republican opposition to any measures that might actually ameliorate the economic distress of ordinary people. I've been looking for an explanation other than their contempt for people who work for a living.

Even a political party whose central organizing principal seems to be the welfare of the top 1% of the economic strata might be expected to worry about the economy as a whole, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I have had a dark suspicion that it is all about partisan manipulation: wreck the economy and blame the democrats.

Maybe not.

Here is a much simpler explanation, and one with deep roots in history.

Check it out.