As for the Republicans—how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy,
nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history
and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid
and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial
hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a
distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on
the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or
unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is
synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a
rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and
mystical ‘American heritage’…) utterly contrary to fact and without the
slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea
deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.
~ HP Lovecraft