In "The GOP's Fractal Incompetency Problem," published in The Week, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry explains that Republican dysfunction is fractal. Every problem is caused by an even deeper problem. We will use Gobry's levels to demonstrate hierarchies.
Going down level after level, we see, to use our terminology and theory, levels of hierarchy seeping into the Republican core. Republicans aren't making choices - they support hierarchies with every decision they make. They don't have a leader weighing the pros and cons - they decide in favor of hierarchies virtually every time.
At another level down, nobody knows or agrees what the Republican Party is for. Yes, they are so clueless at the top, and have accumulated the most clueless in their midst, that they have no idea what reality is at this point.
http://theweek.com/articles/735567/gops-fractal-incompetence-problem
