[stockpirate]

I think we will keep the Republican Party, just replace the thieves with honest folk.

[annalex]

I think the author explains it well: it is not the tip of the iceberg that we see as GOP, — the candidates, the congressmen, etc. It is the machine that produces them; they themselves were not elected to anything but they make the part what it is today, like ants make an anthill. The Dems, by the way, are worse.