From my point of view, this is how I see the repugs master plan and why they seem so irrational. (But in fact could be a master evil plan)
The repugs seem to be driving people away, yet hold much power in America, why is this?
Eat the orange flavored pretzel in case you lose your appetite after reading about repugs.
Repugs are for big business and the 1%ers. This is without question. What stems from this is why they act the way they do.
The vast majority of people are in the 99% (obviously as 99% is almost everyone). How do you get someone from the 99% to go against their best interests? Through a number of ways.
1) Appeal to the worst base instincts of the dumbest of people. This is where the repugs start. The dumbest people of course are the bigots in America. As hate is irrational, these simple minded dupes are easy pickings. However, corporate interests are such that as to have an open hateful stance would cost them money, this hate is thinly shrouded. The same corporations that give some benefits to same sex couples are at the same time supporting ALEC to deny same sex couples their rights. This may seem like two opposite interests, but in reality, the corporations want to make money BUT at the same time keep their base of hateful simple minded dolts.
2) Libertarian idealists. The idealistic idiots of people (of which I was one & will apologize for until the end of time). The thinly shrouded hate (alluded to in point 1) is wrapped up in libertarian idealism, that of less/no government & people should do as they want. The bigots would use the private property trumps civil rights arguement to spread their hateful ways. Next the 1%ers would use the libertarian ideal of less/no government to abuse the people & enviornment even more so.
WAKE UP LIBERTARIANS, the world is NOT like The Moon is a Harsh Misstress. Until we establish a colony in space that is small and controlled like Luna from that book, libertarianism will just be used by greedy and hateful people to destroy America and those that would stand in those two groups way
3) Appeal to the most common religous group in America (Christians) & target the most fundamental of them to support as the preachers can bring more people to the repugs side. Why else would corporations and 1%ers want to court people who by rights should be appalled by their lack of values & morals? And so they are not distracted by the 1%ers immoral greed, keep them focussed on social issues with little to no negative bearing on the 1%er crowd.
4) The conspiracy theorists nuts. Do I even need to elaborate?
5) How to attract middle-class workers who don't fall into the above? Give them jobs! How? Not from the 1%ers who off-shore the work, but create an industry that needs people here and paid for by the taxpayers....INCARCERATION! Appeal to the people the 1%ers scare. Make them think the America is so full of dangerous people that we need to jail more and more people (with a high disportionate rate for minorities further pleasing the hateful dimwits of the repugs). All those people working in those jails will keep voting to protect their jobs and laws in place that keep them employed.
6) Pander towards the military with empty rhetoric. Too many people don't see past the empty talk and the truth that these very people would cut most benefits. They talk occasionally about a pay raise, but would rob other areas of veterns benefits to make up for it. If these 1%er and repugs were so patriotic they would have SERVED. And sometimes they find an idealistic veteran to dupe to do their dirty work for them (ie McPain) How many 1%ers would actually let their kid be put in harms way? (Remember Mittens kids served by helping him run for office...get me a bleeping barf bag for that BS being pushed!)
As you can see my theory is that the repugs who are truly owned by the 1%er crowd do have a plan. Their plan disgusts me. Their plan is immoral in the extreme. They really do have a plan, and sometimes the outrageous stupidity they display could actually be an act by their useful stooges in an attempt to deflect people from figuring out what they really are all about!