...its not about ideological differences traceable to how their "brains are wired", or to cultural, psychological, and anthropological motivations, or even historical precedent.

This is really about good old-fashioned class struggle. These people have an agenda, they know this is a zero-sum game because they've rigged it that way from the start; they have no intention of sharing the loot with anyone--or leveling the playing field for anybody. They are prepared to be ruthless and they feel they are entitled to be that way. They are convinced they alone possess any patriotism, spirituality, civic responsibility, family values and work ethic; anyone not in their tribe must be lazy, stupid and criminal and only deserve to be employees, preferably temps. They see themselves as the Master Race, not because of their genetics, but because of their intellectual and moral superiority. So if we're talking dictionary here, doesn't that spell F-A-S-C-I-S-M? Just read Dr Goebbels and substitute "Entrepreneur" for "Aryan" and "Liberal" for "Jew".

Underneath all the cultural and religious bullshit and all the patriotic crap and phony civic virtue is a strictly economic class agenda that boils down to no progressive, corporate, capital gains, or inheritance taxes and a flat withholding percentage for the low-life scum who have no ambition but to work for wages and no compulsion to accumulate wealth for wealth's sake. This will be coupled with a rollback of the safety net, the New Deal and all social services that can't be subbed out to private contractors and financed by the recipients. If the plebes want justice, health care or education, let them pay for lawyers, doctors and teachers. There will be no regulations to protect the consumer, the environment, the worker, and no restriction of the god-given right of the private sector to manipulate all legal and political institutions for private benefit and to commodify and privatize all cultural and social activities for private profit.

As for "job creation", well--high unemployment is essential to controlling labor costs, idnit?. You don't need an MBA to figure that out, its simple supply and demand. Even the rabble can grok it, and its best they get hip to it right now..

The bastards know this is their last chance to establish their hegemony in perpetuity. They will stop at nothing.