The Republican program is to free business from regulation, taxes, litigation, and resistance from labor, and to ensure that the benefits of commerce and industry be primarily directed to those who own the means of production and control the institutions of trade and finance.

A major part of this program is to make the population totally dependent on them, without any alternatives, for income, and for all the necessities of life and the means to improve it, including health care, education, the safety net, and all social welfare.

A major strategy in this effort is to portray the true creators of wealth, the workers whose hands and minds convert the world's resources into goods and services, as a surly lot of lazy and untrustworthy louts who must be disciplined and guided to a useful life by an enlightened and dedicated management class, a business elite who, of course, always knows best.

At the same time, those functions of government which directly benefit the interests of property and trade, such as the police, laws, courts, and military are to be provided with all the resources they require, at public expense. In addition, all governmental, social and cultural institutions must be privatized and commodified so that they become strictly commercial transactions, subject solely to their exploitation and profit.

Although it might conceivably be argued that some parts of this policy may not be without some benefit to the society as a whole, it seems obvious that the decision as to how public resources are allocated should not be left solely to those who plan to privately benefit from them, and whose self-declared and universally recognized interest is not that of the society in general, or even overall economic health and rationality, but purely their own.

In general, the Republican program is to return the nation, if not the world, to the same industrial and economic regime that existed throughout the 19th century, a system that siphoned off the majority of the great wealth produced by new technology directly into the hands of a very few, while the rest of the population was left to live in abject squalor and insecurity, simply a resource to be tapped, and then discarded when used up. For the executive elite, or those who have been deluded into thinking they are soon to become a part of it, the social universe is their playground, the field where they pursue their own self-aggrandizement. As far as they are concerned, the rest of us just work here.
We don't really matter.

No one disputes the efficiency and productivity of free enterprise, or its role in creating and distributing great wealth and liberty for as many people as possible. But the plutocracy that wishes to monopolize this wealth for themselves will bitterly oppose any criticism of their actions, or any reforms, of the system which might conceivably frustrate their designs. There is nothing anyone can say, or any suggestion anyone can make, which they will not attack and attempt to discredit, and they will accept no course for civilization other than the one they have set. They will tell you the only two alternatives society has are Communist dictatorship, or their way, and that any objection whatsoever to their policy must therefore be a conspiracy sponsored by the other.

Do not believe this. They must not be allowed to get away with it.