ORIGINAL GOP of 1850s = Alliance of Moralistic types who wanted to eradicate slavery as a moral evil & greedy business types who wanted to eradicate slavery because they could not compete with the NEAR FREE LABOR in the South! 

BAGGERS FOR $BILLIONAIRES = NEVER WILL MAKE ANY SENSE

Wall Street’s Tea Party = Corporate and fundamentalist right = bizarro marriage = Held together by the likes of Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers

Many Tea Party GOPers = Have NO use for investment bankers = CONTEMPT

Conflict of INTEREST = BUSINESS Wishes of Wall Street versus Tea Party CRAZY

Conflict of INTEREST = Wall Street favors Immigration as source of cheap labor Versus Tea Party wants mass deportations and right to shoot border-crossers.

Wall Street’s money needs the fundamentalist votes OR NO GOP.

CAN progressives offer something better to downwardly mobile America?

Wall Street GOP = USES Economically threatened working people and Scapegoat blacks, immigrants, women, or gays to KEEP Tea Party in line.

GOP Congress blocks all policies that help working Americans.

Democrats social issues = Drive Fundamentalist base to corporate conservatives.

GOP = Corporate elitists persuaded Fundamentalist base to support tax breaks for BILLIONAIRES = Argues Trickle Down and GOV WASTE worse than ELITIST FRAUD

History examples show capitalism run amok leads to rightwing populist reactions.

Bailing out Wall Street took precedence over saving Main Street.

FASCISM = An alliance between capitalists and angry working people who displace their economic frustrations into social and cultural rage.

FASCISM Antidote = A Strong Democracy with working people understanding their OWN economic self-interest in serving the COMMON GOOD.

Chamber of Commerce = Occasional outbreaks of cultural tolerance = Arizona Bill that would have COST BIG BUSINESSES

Chamber = Mostly loves TP cultural rage – keeps FOCUS off their SCAMS and financial abuses = Far Better they bash gays and immigrants.