I know it's not a new concept that these Resmuglicrook fools are greedy money grubbing bastards who see the federal government as nothing more than a vehicle to tax the middle class to death so that they may line the pockets of themselves and their cronies with no-bid contracts, but when viewed with a proper veil of cynicism you can trace every move they make and every policy decision back to this viewpoint.
Just pick up any issue they use, including the seemingly meaningless wedge issues, define their stance on it, not by what they say exactly in sound bite land but by what it means to the economics of the issue, and you can lay a framework for why their stance falls back into the "money for the uber rich" frame.
I'll start with the simple low hanging fruit, the true economic issues that they cant even hide from.
1.Ten years with no minimum wage hike, while ignoring attempts to bring it to the floor by progressives.
2.The bankruptcy bill. This one need very little explanation. It basically enshrines usury, which is hilariously ironic with these pitiful fucks that hide behind the bible.
3.Medicare Part D, with its glorious "Donut Hole"... What the fuck? To whom does this not sound insane? It would be like your auto insurance moving your deductible to after it paid for the first grand of damages... If your wanting to build in a deductible, then just fucking do it and be up front that we are fucking you. That doesn't even take into account the inability to negotiate prices with precious pharmaceuticals.
4.The tax cuts that are generally agreed to predominantly help the top 1%, with the added benefit of being able to say "The democrats are raising your taxes" when they don't vote to make these ridiculous cuts permanent.
O.K., I could go on with those types for days, but they don't have much challenge, and we've all seen them over and over. But now to dig into the shadier issues and see why they support this theme.
ABORTION
On the surface this is just a wedge used to rev up the evangelicals and single issue voters, and that it does. That is the political expediency that is on the surface. They need this because they have a long lasting cultivated relationship built with the Christians, and have either successfully brainwashed large segments into seeing this as the only issue to base a vote for a candidate on or just happened along to sweep up those who already felt that way. So, politically we know its a given number of votes just by saying you are Pro-Life(anti-choice), even if you are for pillaging their savings accounts and giving them cancer while pandering to their emotions.
Financially, there is the basic health care reapings to start with. An abortion has just a limited cost, and its one procedure, so its very limited profit to those who made their billions in health care(See: Bill Frist). The HMO's and for profit hospitals can only pull in the cash at this one visit. If you take a child to term, thats many visits and OB/GYN appointments and pediatricians and so forth. This already makes the full term child way more lucrative than an abortion, and thats the healthy ones. Just think the gleam in their eyes if its a child with an illness or low birth weight premature baby's that need neonatal intensive care. What a way to boost the GDP!!! I know it sounds callous, but I'm looking at it through their greedy eyes.
Now lets consider the fringe benefits the sociopathic wingnuts will see from this forced pregnancy. We can assume the child is here and we will say the mother keeps it since most do at this point. I'm sure she is not in the greatest position to raise the child as she wanted to, after all she considered abortion. Odds are she does not have her career in order and cannot easily provide for the child. I do know some very courageous parents who have made an unexpected pregnancy work under less than ideal circumstances, but even in those cases, they would likely have been able to do an even better job if given a better situation. So, you end up with parent(s) and children in most cases not living up to their potential and not being educated to the level they would like and that society would hope for. Now you have most likely formed quite a few more individuals that will fit into the category of working poor.
These wingnuts love working poor, because they aren't usually secure enough or have the time to get "uppity" and demand that government works for them and you know gives national health care, civil rights or strong labor laws. They see that as chaos and mob rule. Democracy is Kryptonite to these Resmuglicrooks and wingnuts.
SEX EDUCATION
Cant have that, we might prevent disease and unwanted pregnancies. For those reasons, see the health care section reasons above for the diseases, and the other ramifications of forced unwanted pregnancies.
GAY BASHING
This one is fairly simple. They always use bigotry to find divisions among the poor and middle class, so that they may divide them amongst themselves. That way, they are not focused upon the wingnuts and resmuglicrooks that are actually fucking them. It used to be different nationalities and races, but now that doesn't poll as strongly, so they find that most people still accept gay bashing, so they can use that. Its much like the magicians "slight of hand", create a distraction here, while the trick happens out of the main area of concentration. A middle class gay man, black man and white man have much more in common with each other in daily life than any one of them has with a rich man of any type. The rich men know this, and must keep pointing out the differences among the poor and middle class to divide and conquer.
FLAG BURNING
O.K., this one is a stretch, but you have to have people that will blindly follow something and not question its motives or the consequences of its actions. The best way to do that is to play the emotional card. So, take the flag as the symbol of the government/nation, then show it being violated/persecuted by some "them" type group and you will instill a gut-level nationalism that is necessary to make all believe that this government and especially this crowd of wingnuts is only working for the greater good of the community of the persecuted.
BLURRING THE LINES OF CHURCH AND STATE
This has a fund raising and organizational benefit in that most churches are already fairly well organized and used to asking for money for little or nothing in return. This seems second nature to most church-goers as they like the "father figure" and being subservient to the protector/leader types. Also, they can abuse the tax-free status of these institutions to hide businesses and amass great personal wealth outside of the government structure until the merger is complete(see Dobson, Falwell and Robertson). There is no better product to sell someone than faith, they either have it or don't, but you get the money either way.
Aside from that, wingnuts need people of "faith" on their side since need their votes, even though they are actively trying to destroy their lives. These believers will unquestioningly follow whatever it is they collectively believe. Belief is very powerful, and is why you will often meet wingnuts who in arguments seem to not even hear any arguments against their position no matter how strong. They absolutely cannot accept new ideas or even "facts" related to these beliefs because that would make them have to question their entire belief structure thereby creating a paradox where they have to follow what they don't agree with or worse yet admit that they have been fooled and wronged.
MILITARY USE AND BUILDUP
This one is easier and could be considered low hanging fruit, but it has a couple of facets, so it needs to be covered with a little more zeal. First is the appeal to nationalism that is also found in flag burning, a nation at war feels more patriotic and willing to sacrifice.
Mostly though, you can hide and "lose" more money here than almost anywhere else. The best place to steal/embezzle money is where an accountant wouldn't go. Where is better than a war zone? This is where you can throw "footballs" of $100 bills and have no-bid contracts to "rebuild" or even to provide services that the military used to provide itself(better and cheaper in most cases, like building 18 at Walter Reed).
I know this diary was all over the place and rambling at times, but I finally was able to post a diary and wanted to lay out my main opinion that these Resmuglicrooks first, and most important if not only allegiance is to the pocketbook of the "haves and have mores"... or as they call them "their base".