Conservative Groups Seek Control of GOP Agenda

[MisterP]

17. precisely! the Pubs have $ and want people, the Dems people and want $

the Dems are structured sectorially--gays, unions, women's advocates, consumer-protection, Black, Hispanic at the bottom in a neat row, then a stratum of their leaders, then state reps, then national, then party and Presidential-tier

the GOP is made up of four interacting but basically autonomous units, which even have their own presses: right-libertarians and big business, and the Religious Right and the warmongers, each with their own billionaire and corporate backers and ideology-writing think tanks

one's a RW party now (getting less mixed since 1980--heck, Weicker is to the left of most top-tier Dems), the other's like Labour--socially populist and even rhetorically rabble-rousing, but economically solidly Reaganite: the social democrats of Europe and Latin America have also neoliberalized since the SINO Mitterrand, but their financial capitalism is of a different flavor than the US's (Merkel prefers to squeeze Southern Europe rather than outsource to China)