Reply #12: The Strausscons don't have an ideology. They just have

[No Exit]

strategies for obtaining power, control, and riches. But they have to pretend to have an ideology in order to suck in the True Believer types. Because they need those people. And you're right--they're well on their way to closing their trap on their True Believers ("Christians", "believers in the free market", "capitalists" who work for a salary, etc.)--and to closing the trap on the rest of us, too.

We'll see it closing. The True Believers won't see that it's closing. But we'll all be in the same trap; indeed, we are already more than halfway in...