My niece stumped with with a question: Why is the Republican Party allowed to even exist today?

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50. It's allowed to exist because of money

The Republican party in a sense is not a political party, it's a scam on the part of the wealthy to control government. In order to control the government under the veneer of democracy, the wealthy buy off politicians, and in the case of the U.S., the wealthy bought themselves a political party.

The wealthy do not want government to be controlled by the will of the people. The wealthy want to control government to make themselves even wealthier. To accomplish this, the wealthy instruct their employees (Republican politicians) to change the tax law (which we have witnessed recently), spend more government money on things that benefit the wealthy and less money that benefit the people.

If we assume the wealthy make up 1% of the population, then, how could they control government? The employees of the wealthy (Republican politicians) conduct campaigns to attract enough voters to get themselves elected. For example, Republican politicians do and say the right things to attract one-issue voters (abortion) and culture voters (those who don't like non-white people).