Please remember: it may have been phrased in many different ways and concealed beneath tons

[Atticus]

of bullshit, but the primary goal of the Republican party can still be accurately summed up with just two words:

"cheap labor".

The rest is window dressing and camouflage.

[vlyons]

1. A few more words

No/low taxes for the rich
No/few regulations for corporations
Maximize profits always

[onetexan]

5. Yup, a society of plutocrats & oligarchs propping up kleptocrats

With their dark money, & in turn they continue to line their pockets at the expense of the 99%.

[rubbersole]

6. And laugh their asses off all the way to the bank.

[Atticus]

7. Each of those, given time, results in cheap labor. nt

[vlyons]

9. Cheap labor is one of the means to maximize profits

nt

[JHB]

17. Shoot money skyward...

As much as possible
As fast as possible
As high as possible

Anything that interferes with that is Evil Incarnate and must be destroyed. Such as the New Deal, which bottle-necked the divine right of unrestrained upward flow.

Such is the Highest Virtue of "modern" economics
(and why liberals get all pissy when centrists fail to recognize this)

[wcmagumba]

2. Sounds exactly like the philosophy of Mr. Scrooge in Dicken's story....hmmm....

[brush]

3. Absolutely. Keen distillation down to their very essence..

[dalton99a]

4. Cheap labor that dies early

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/10/26/working-age-american-mortality-rate-state-policies/10594782002/

More Americans die younger in states with conservative policies, study finds
Adrianna Rodriguez
USA TODAY

The United States has a working-age mortality problem: Americans die younger than people in most other high-income countries.

While many blame drug overdoses, rising suicide rates and bad health habits, a new study suggests policymakers may play a bigger role than previously thought.

Researchers looked at policies relating to criminal justice, marijuana, the environment, gun safety, health and welfare, private labor, economic taxes, and tobacco taxes, and scored them on a 0-to-1 continuum, where the maximum conservative score is zero and the maximum liberal score is one.

They merged that information with mortality data spanning from 1999 to 2019, and found liberal policies were associated with lower deaths among people aged 25 to 64, according to the study published Wednesday in PLOS ONE.

[NJCher]

13. how do they live with themselves?

snip

The analysis revealed changing state policies to fully liberal could have saved more than 171,000 lives in 2019, while changing them to fully conservative may have cost over 217,000 lives.

snip

Hadn't seen this article, dalton99a.

[republianmushroom]

8. Nailed it

[lpbk2713]

10. Profit Margin

The highest number possible.

[housecat]

11. Democrats: we we we. Republicans: me me me

[halfulglas]

12. And few regulations.

Don't forget, that was the main reason given for so much of the dark money poured into backing even the most loathsome GOPers in the last election, especially by the tech sector. The majority of them truly feel every regulation that helps anyone else is coming out of their pocket.

A few years ago visiting a relatively prosperous Southern state the reason living was less expensive was because the state didn't regulate businesses like builders, etc. They pointed out you get more house for your money. Of course some of the little things like mandatory termite inspections might cost you in the long term when you find out the house had termites but a little late, well, that's on you. They especially hate that term, mandate, because it tells them they have to do do something.

[NJCher]

14. penny wise

pound foolish.

[BOSSHOG]

16. Don't you just love it

When some fake patriot, freedom hating Republican bleats about “common sense” legislation and onerous regulations. No specificity used or needed relative to targeted audience. Hell! No use in regulating the gun industry. That industry is doing just fine without it. I could go on. Good Lord I could go on.

[erronis]

15. Not so sure. True racism and hatred for others is part of their persona.

While I agree that they are objectively class-based (we got ours, get lost), there is so much animosity to other races, skin colors, last names, religions, genders that I can't let them off with just being in favor of cheap labor.

Now the move to automation of everything will mean that even the cheap labor needs to be disposed of. No need for those types to take up valuable real estate....

[Atticus]

19. Racism and hatred DIVIDE working people and set the against each other instead of

uniting in common cause against billionaires, mega-corporations and their hirelings.

And, "divided we fall" = cheap labor.

[BWdem4life]

18. Slave labor

If possible.

[AllyCat]

20. Privatize the profits. Socialize the losses.

[Martin Eden]

21. Republicans are the money changers in the temple

The greatest scam in politics is how they've convinced millions of rubes that the Republican Party represents Christian values.