The Republican party, at its core, believes that a freer market is better for the economy and all of its participants. This has metastasized into a belief that the participants should be told whatever they need to hear in order to get the freest market possible. The Democratic party, at its core, believes that the people need to be protected from the excesses of its participants. This has metastasized into a belief that those participants should be given whatever they want because fuckin' hell the people ain't got no money and elections are expensive, yo. We used to have Democrats and Republicans. We now have Republicans and Plutocrats. You may fear a Democrat hegemony but you'll have a tough time convincing me we'd suffer much were every (R) to suffer immediate, painful and lasting extinction.