And there's nothing wrong with that, they are an important segment of the population and they have legitimate interests that deserve to be represented.

Ideologically, the GOP has always favored Business positions (as opposed to Labor) and they argue that if business is not prospering neither can the nation. Again, there is nothing wrong with that.

So it is not unreasonable to use the the terms 'Republican" and 'Business', interchangeably. I'd use the synonym 'Capital' but in this country that will only get you called 'Communist'. The Business/Republican community has somehow managed to indoctrinate the public that even the slightest curb or criticism of the business community must be a Communist plot and must be immediately stamped out.

I also take exception to your assertion that we must import foreigners to do jobs "Americans are no longer willing to take on". NO! These are jobs that are so poorly paid that no American can live on those wages, it is impossible to support oneself to American standards on those wages, only those willing to live and work like animals will take them on. It isn't that Americans aren't willing to work hard, they have been convinced that it is impossible to do those jobs at reasonable wages. What are those jobs? Menial labor, hard construction, agriculture, restaurant work, child and elder and sick care, etc.

I was one of the pampered, self-indulgent, privileged, youth of the prosperous 1960s and I and my fellow lazy-ass hippies happily did that kind of work to pay our way through school. I did construction, one of my friends worked the orange groves, everyone I knew did "shit-jobs" during summer or for extra money BECAUSE THEY PAID WELL. If the boss wouldn't pay, we went somewhere else and found one who would. The Law of Supply and Demand, remember?

But LOS&D don't work when the country is flooded with cheap, illegal foreign labor who will work for pennies on the dollar and who will live in slums and tenements because they have no other alternative. And when they are afraid of losing those jobs if they fight for their rights as workers, they become essentially, slaves. Maybe they're not as bad off as the blacks who picked the cotton, or the Chinese who built the railroads, or the Southern and Eastern Europeans who worked the mills and factories of the Gilded Age, but they are still slaves. Buck, these folks didn't come here to do the jobs we wouldn't do, they were brought here to replace Americans who wanted to get paid a decent wage. Republican legislators have always resisted congressional attempts to enforce migrant labor laws, except those involving farm workers. Remember when those slaughterhouses were going to be shut down for employing illegals in hazardous conditions? Nothing ever came of that, did it?

There is overlap and the boundaries are fuzzy, but for the same reasons you can say the Democrats are the party of Labor, or the working man. If we assume that the policies favorable to Capital are opposed to those favorable to Labor, but that neither of them is necessarily good or evil, then the only reasonable path for a democracy is to come up with a compromise both sides can live with. This is both the challenge and the triumph of American democracy; a society where an optimum synthesis of the two can be achieved for the benefit of all. Of course, this balance is never perfect, and can rarely be achieved completely, but it is what must always be sought out.