This message was self-deleted by its author

[MisterP]

8. poli sci has found 4 GOP factions (in fact they're each like their own party, with massive backers

and even their own publishing houses)

1. right-libertarians (vocal, attract racists, self-contradictory, both elitist and populist) ironically founded by fundie Gary North, corpo Hunts and Kochs, inexperienced militarist Heinlein, and some Bioshock villain who used to run props for De Mille and had no idea how to run a business
2. corporatists (pretty authoritarian, but can be pretty socially liberal--when it comes to getting the pink dollar) economically they collide with the libertarians and they LOVE science so they like the fundies more for saying that high wages and pollution controls are tools of Satan--in fact they love science so much they'll ignore everything it says (note that secondhand smoke wasn't just called hippie science, it was called woo); includes dirty-cop whitecoats and techno-utopians, so even the vaguely-Democratish Elon Musk can approach this column when he opens his mouth
3. fundies (pretty recent actually--not even around 1975 when you think about it)
4. militarists (separate from the MIC, actually have the strongest voice in Washington of the four): very bipartisan, going from Richard "Gaza is the new Muscovite superpower" Pipes and bloodsoaked Birchers like North and Secord to Samantha "I'm no neocon" Power; a few of them are "Keynesian" in that they feed sparrows through the horses of the DoD and

so there's no "racist faction," racism is a currency in the flows between them