"A Party of the Wealthy, by the Wealthy, and for the Wealthy"

"Where does this disdain for workers come from? Some of it, obviously, reflects the influence of money in politics: big-money donors, like the ones Mr. Romney was speaking to when he went off on half the nation, don’t live paycheck to paycheck. But it also reflects the extent to which the G.O.P. has been taken over by an Ayn Rand-type vision of society, in which a handful of heroic businessmen are responsible for all economic good, while the rest of us are just along for the ride.

"In the eyes of those who share this vision, the wealthy deserve special treatment, and not just in the form of low taxes. They must also receive respect, indeed deference, at all times. That’s why even the slightest hint from the president that the rich might not be all that—that, say, some bankers may have behaved badly, or that even 'job creators' depend on government-built infrastructure—elicits frantic cries that Mr. Obama is a socialist."
 

Paul Krugman in The New York Times explores why the current Republican Party has become anti-worker.