Does anyone think the neo-cons secretly laugh at all the gullible middle-cl republicans who vote for them?

Yes, but it will be us middle cl getting the last laughs as the rich are turned into the middle cl. It's already starting to happen, you can have 350,000,000.00 dollars but if it's not worth very much if nobody trusts your financial institutions, and you have to leverage it just to buy bread, or a car.