The GOP's class warfare fuels America's ruin while the world burns

The Republican Party is at war with itself—or so they’d have you believe—but the political establishment in the United States is comprised of Republican hawks, Republican isolationists, and corporate loyalists among those Democratic elected officials who pretend to oppose GOP lunacy.

The hawks scream for blood in Iran and Ukraine. The isolationists rage against foreign entanglements.

The MAGA cult chants about "America First" while their leaders sell the country piece by piece to the highest bidder. But make no mistake: beneath the performative chaos, there is one thing the GOP remains perfectly united on—the ruthless exploitation of the American working class.

Lisa McCormick, the firebrand progressive who has spent years sounding the alarm about the corporate coup d'état unfolding in Washington, has issued a blistering new manifesto—a Declaration of War Against the Corporate Aristocracy—and it pulls no punches.

While Republicans bicker over which foreign conflict to escalate or abandon, they move in lockstep when it comes to bleeding the American people dry.

The Great Distraction: Wars Abroad, Theft at Home

The GOP’s foreign policy circus is just that—a madhouse mêlée of commotion.

The pandemonium is a smokescreen designed to conceal the true intentions of America's oligarchs.

While Lindsey Graham howls for more fighter jets over battlegrounds across the globe and Rand Paul rails against "endless wars," their votes tell the real story.

They never miss an opportunity to slash taxes for billionaires, crush unions, and gut social programs. If the GOP cannot muster support among their own ranks, a few Democrats will break formation and cross party lines.

They’ll fight like rabid dogs over defense contracts but fall silent when it comes to defending American workers from wage theft, medical bankruptcy, or corporate price gouging.

McCormick’s declaration cuts to the heart of it: "They have an 'every man for himself' perspective on the world—unless that man is a CEO. Then, as Reverend Martin Luther King told us, it’s socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest of us."The Tax Scam That Built Their Empire

Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "Taxes are the price we pay for civilization."

Today’s GOP doesn’t want civilization—they want feudalism.

They’ve turned the IRS into a glorified debt collector for the working poor while letting Amazon, Tesla, and Wall Street banks dodge billions. They scream about "wasteful spending" when it funds food stamps, but when it’s a $700 billion Pentagon budget—crickets.

"The offensive against Iran is Trump’s and Netanyahu’s war," said McCormick in a merciless indictment: "They don’t believe in government of the people, by the people, for the people. They believe in government of the corporations, by the lobbyists, for the oligarchs."

"Whether Washington’s war machine acknowledges the fault of Trump’s abandoned Iran deal or not, one thing’s clear: The truth is that this crisis was never inevitable—just horribly, predictably mismanaged," said McCormick. "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently on trial in Israeli courts for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in three separate cases, and he is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity."

"Donald Trump was convicted of falsifying business records in New York. His unresolved criminal indictments include mishandling classified documents, obstruction of justice, illegally trying to overturn election results, plus he lost civil lawsuits for defamation, sexual abuse, and fraud," said McCormick. "The UN Human Rights Council accused Ali Khamenei of crimes against humanity, including murder, imprisonment, torture, rape, persecution, enforced disappearance, and other inhumane acts as part of a widespread and systematic attack against Iran's civilian population."

"It's 89 seconds to midnight but our political systems are all broken. Americans and all the people of the world must rise to the responsibility of citizenship!," said McCormick. "The people who hold our life and death in their hands are not responsible, smart, or even remotely qualified."

McCormick’s Declaration of War

McCormick’s manifesto reads like a revolutionary broadside—because it is.

"We have endured their greed, their corruption, and their cruelty for far too long," McCormick writes. "They have hollowed out our middle class, rigged the economy, and turned our democracy into a stock market for billionaires. But no more."

"We will not rest until we have rebuilt our middle class, restored our economy, and reclaimed our democracy from the corporate vampires sucking it dry," said McCormick, who calls for nothing less than total rebellion—not with bullets, but with ballots, strikes, and unrelenting pressure.

The Choice Ahead

The Republican Party wants you distracted. They want us fighting over culture wars, foreign wars, anything but most Democrats are on their side in the real war—the one they have been waging against working Americans for decades.

McCormick’s message is clear: Wake up.

The oligarchs don’t care about Israel, Ukraine, or Taiwan—they care about keeping Americans poor, divided, and desperate.

McCormick’s hope is that the American people will stop falling for the con so we can finally rise up and fight back.