I think many of us feel as we imagine some few African-Americans feel as and when they have an epiphany and come to understand that the Democrat party, contrary to its contrived image, actually despises them. As Jesse Jackson can exploit the Trayvon Martin case as he has done, not to advance the well-being of rootless black teenage boys or even any part of the African-American race, but to rabble-rouse that race with demagoguery, so will the Republican establishment exploit the patriotism and godliness of the American heartland to maintain its perch on the heights of political power.
I live here in Germany so I cannot pretend to any peculiar inside knowledge of the workings of the GOP and I am reduced to listening to talk radio to get a sense of inner reality from what is put on the air. Yet, when I hear someone like Tucker Carlson, hardly a firebreathing conservative, remark to Laura Ingraham with real bitterness in his voice that every one of those GOP insiders attending the cocktail parties inside the Beltway favor abortion and lie about their position in public, I cannot but feel like an exploited wretch on the plantation. Coincidently, Rush Limbaugh made the same remark describing the same kind of elitist party to crystallize the deep hypocrisy of the Republican elite. I was surprised at the vehemence with which Carlson criticized the establishment.
There is no question that the GOP establishment are embarrassed by believing Christians, condone abortion, approve of big government in general, and despise their base much as a carnival bear-baiter despises the animal he exploits and incites to react in public to provide him his livelihood.
The problem as you point out is the mask has now been ripped away and the whole of conservative middle America now understands that it has been exploited for generations. Worse, they are coming to understand that they and their country have been sold out. I do not concede that the elitists are animated by good motive. I believe they are opportunists and hypocrites. In other words, I discount any presentation of the GOP elite as a group which honestly believes that honest, constitutional conservatism is doomed to lose at the polls. I support this position from evidence of their stance on immigration. They cannot on the one hand claim demographics as the irresistible force which compels them to abandon conservatism and on the other hand move as they do, and as George Bush did, to open the gates and create the very demographics which they plead.
Their real sin is that they are parasites with guilty knowledge that they are trading off chunks of America for their personal enrichment. They cannot plead as liberals might that they think they are actually doing a greater good for the greater number, their rhetoric denies that. They know that they are consciously selling out America for their own personal enrichment. They know we are approaching the precipice, they know the economy is sailing onto the rocks, they know we are losing our position in the world, they know the American century is drawing to a close, they know we are losing our liberties at home, and they only collaborate in the disintegration.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres,
which indeed appear beautiful outward,
but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
