The Real Party of Treason

“When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a series of positions deliberately designed to weaken America, they would be hard pressed to beat the current GOP dogma — hobble education, starve the government by slashing taxes to the rich, kneecap attempts to jumpstart the economy by fixating on debt, invite corporations to dominate political discourse, balkanize the population by demonizing minorities and immigrants and let favored religions dictate social policy.”
—Neil Steinberg, in a Chicago-Sun Times column called “Happy Fourth of July to the Treason Party”
c/o Left of the Mark quotes

The liberal playbook Rules for Radicals in play. Blame your opponent for what you're doing. What's amazing is, there's two varieties, the ones who know they're lying and the ones who believe the lies; trying to imagine the cognitive dissonance of the latter is harder than the former because the greed of the liars is something we can all understand, but the credulity of the inculcated believers is incomprehensibly pathetic.

Let me reverse these to reveal the real party of treason: "Were a band of traitors to concoct a series of positions deliberately designed to weaken America, they would be hard pressed to beat the current GOP Progressive dogma — hobble take over and corrupt education, starve bloat the government by slashing taxes to the rich raising taxes on everybody, kneecap attempts to jumpstart the economy by fixating on catastrophically increasing debt... and so on.