Yet why are these rich, fat and happy Republicans so desperate ? Why do so many of their leaders, almost daily, take a position on some civic issue that we've known is crazy for 30 years? I think the ruling class Republicans sense a weakness in their system , in their status as the elite ruling class. The 1% feels vulnerable to the 99% rising for income equality. And down with the economics profession, for making up stories about trickle down to the poor, and austerity or belt-tightening, for the 99% and "party like it's 1999" for the 1% on Wall Street; and the economists' vampire, PRIVATIZATION.