None Dare Call It Treason: Why Republicans Won

[damnedifIknow]

*Let's begin the 2016 campaign season by calling Republican politicians by their true name: traitors. Enemies of the United States of America.

The Republican descent into treason began with Ronald Reagan and his deplorable "Reaganomics." At the forefront of this philosophy were three big lies: helping the rich get richer would inevitably help everyone else; markets were inherently self correcting and therefore there was no need for government regulation; and the US did not need an economic strategy because that was a natural consequence of the free market.

In 1981, the Republican Party embraced plutocracy and ushered in a thirty-year period where America's working families were abandoned in favor of the rich. Inequality rose as middle class income and wealth declined. As corporate power increased, unions were systematically undermined. As CEO salaries soared, fewer families earned living wages.

*On August 29th, President Obama identified the Republican political strategy: "There has been a certain cynical genius to what [Republicans] have done in Washington. What they've realized is, if we don't get anything done, then people are going to get cynical about government and its possibilities of doing good for everybody" And the more cynical people get, the less they vote. And if turnout is low and people don't vote, that pretty much benefits [the Republicans] who benefit from the status quo." That's what happened in 2014. Republican voters turned out but Democrats were depressed about the prospects for change and didn't vote."

Liberals can fight back. We can call Republicans on their immoral plan to ruin democracy. Liberals must call Republicans by their true names: traitors."

http://www.opednews.com/articles/None-Dare-Call-It-Treason-by-Bob-Burnett-Republican_Republican-Extremism_Republican-GOP-Dirty-Tricks_Republican-Hypocrisy-141107-193.html

[Mnemosyne]

1. K&R! nt

[99th_Monkey]

2. Nice one.

It is a sorry-ass list of ReThug high crimes, treason & treachery ...GOP
gutter rats are so low, nothing is beneath them.

There is verifiable evidence that these 7 forms of election buggery by GOP
have occurred on a wide scale.:
1) onerous "Jim Crow" voter ID requirements (see Texas)
2) "Official" misinformation about polling place location, date of election
etc. distributed to deliberately mislead Democratic voters.
3) arranging for unbearably long-lines in heavily Democratic precincts w/ too few voting machines
4) "running out of" ballots in ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ heavily Democratic precincts
5) taking machines in heavily Democratic precincts off-line for "maintenance"
6) "losing" registration records
7) tracking ^above^ and then (in closing hours) hacking electronic-voting
machines (as needed to "close the deal&quot in final stretch.

Looking the other way on these ^ is NOT doing the Democratic party any favors.

[bvar22]

4. Neither did dropping ACORN like a radioactive hot potato.

I can't believe how fast the Democrats ran from ACORN.

[99th_Monkey]

24. Ouch. Yes ACORN

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I worked for ACORN in Portland, Oregon doing Voter Reg. and Admin. Assistant to the Director.

So I KNEW they were doing fantastic work for all the right reasons, generally on a shoestring budget that
the workers raised going door to door. The "case" against ACORN was so lame, and could have been
easily refuted if someone (Democrats?) had their backs and forced a fair outcome.

Yep. Too bad about ACORN. Crap they had been doing good work since the 70s as I recall.

[Katashi_itto]

3. It's not Treason. It's Sedition.

[Nye Bevan]

5. None who own a dictionary call it treason

because they know what treason means.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

6. Treason? If Bob Burnett was trying to make liberals look loony, he succeeded.

UNREC.

[damnedifIknow]

27. Recent history might disagree with you

Think of how Bush came to power and what happened during that eight year nightmare.

[dionysus]

7. i guess he went straight to the hyperbole cannon on that...

[hack89]

8. Hyperbolic crazy talk may make some feel better about the election

But it is still crazy talk.

[zeemike]

15. Well it worked for the GOP.

And some of us don't seem to understand why.

But it is simple...you say the wildest things you can think of about someone and they will always defend themselves or get others to defend them...so you say even more crazy shit to keep them defending themselves and looking weak.

And the liberals seem not to notice that they lose by being defensive when the best defense is a good offense as we all know.

But by all means stick to your high principles, we don't need to win do we?

[GoneFishin]

9. Who gives a shit if the word treason was misused here? That is not the point.

Neither do they dare not call them weaselly ratfuckers which also does not comport with any dictionary definition, but is nevertheless a perfect description of the morally bankrupt cheating bastards.

[Android3.14]

10. Actually, it is the point

Other than preaching to an ignorant choir, the OP sounds like an idiot.

[GoneFishin]

13. Your point is taken regarding the caption. But the body of OP highlights

the wanton systematic destruction of the middle class to benefit the upper crust.

If someone alerts me about a 100 foot tree that is about to fall on me, I won't waste time correcting him if he identifies it by the improper variety name. I'll have other things to worry about.

I understood the OP just fine.

[yallerdawg]

11. What do you call those who seek to destroy their own country, their own government?

Who said, "Government is the problem."

Who supports unrestricted gun ownership to defend themselves from the government, "like our founding fathers meant?"

Who said, "Our number one goal is to make Obama a one term president" (like nothing else had been going on)?

[dflprincess]

12. It didn't start with Reagan

there are tapes of LBJ and Everett Dirksen discussing Nixon committing treason.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. Reagan sure turned the bull loose all right.

[kimbutgar]

16. Reagan destroyed our country. He got his lessons starting in Caliofornia.

Starting with charging tuition at the UC in the 60's . We had a vibrant college system in California, him and prop 13 destroyed our state.

I hope he is burning in hell.

[Nye Bevan]

21. Actually UC started charging tuition in 1982,

long after Reagan departed as governor.

http://www.csmonitor.com/1982/1217/121742.html

Also, Reagan was not involved in Prop 13:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_%281978%29

[kimbutgar]

28. I was in the system in 1976 and we paid but I knew people who rememberd not paying because of Reagan

Reagan was governor who changed the system.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. Reagan was nothing but a spokesman for the Republicans who ran the show....

They were and still ARE obsessed with opposing the ALL of The New Deal.

See, Republicans NEVER admit defeat. It's the whole "The South Shall Rise Again" mindset.

It wont. The South LOST because it was WRONG and it ain't coming back so suck on that on your front porch and add a sprig of mint to it.

[Nye Bevan]

20. Wait.... so people whose ancestors were bad people should fall under special scrutiny?

Should Ron Reagan (son of Ronald) be imprisoned, just to be on the safe side?

[Initech]

23. Yeah i think that my logic was flawed there.

[defacto7]

18. Definitions under scrutiny..

sedition n. the Federal crime of advocacy of insurrection against the government or support for an enemy of the nation during time of war, by speeches, publications and organization. Sedition usually involves actually conspiring to disrupt the legal operation of the government and beyond expression of an opinion or protesting government policy. Sedition is a lesser crime than "treason," which requires actual betrayal of the government or "espionage." Espionage involves spying on the government, trading state secrets (particularly military) to another country (even a friendly nation), or sabotaging governmental facilities, equipment, or suppliers of the government like an aircraft factory.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/sedition

It still could be treason in the case of this OP if the above legal definition can be applied when it says, "treason," which requires actual betrayal of the government. How can we differentiate the "actual betrayal of government" from acts committed by the GOP? Yes it's sedition, but it can also be defined by treason. Don't try to tell me that the GOP and the corporate elite haven't been conspiring for many, many years to bring down our government or at least turn it maliciously into a government of their whim. Sedition may be overt, and this qualifies, but treason as a planned secret overthrow also qualifies... voting machine fraud, secret voter purges, possible assassinations, slow and careful overtaking of news media, propaganda as fact....

I can understand the differences in the definitions, but I can't separate the definition of either word from the GOP right wing mechanism.

[New Deal Dave]

19. By that definition we'd still be in the British Empire

If the colonists hadn't revolted.

[blueboy2727]

25. Obama is partially right

I think that, in a broader sense, it's just easy to convince many voters that if their lives weren't instantly better over the previous couple of years, it must be the fault of the President's party.

[lunasun]

26. I do not like the article title

Even if it was to reference the original epigram which is fitting for these day$ now
it reminds me of that Bircher book about commies infiltrating
US culture in the 60s ugh
From wiki

Stormer's main book None Dare Call It Treason argued that America was losing the cold war because it was being betrayed by its elites, who were procommunist. The title of the book is derived from an epigram of Sir John Harington: "Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason." It was published in 1964, during Barry Goldwater's bid for the presidency, and sold over one million copies in the first six months. It was distributed in bulk quantities and during the campaign six million copies were circulated.[9] It was immensely influential with the harder line sections of the American Right[10] and has been described as a cult classic of the New Right
Anyone else remember this right cult classic ?

[liberalla]

29. K&R

[diane in sf]

30. The Republican and wingnut owned voting machine companies are stealing elections

undetectably with electronic vote counting. This has allowed all the state level shenanigans including gerrymandering and voter disenfranchisement that have led to the loss of the house in the last two elections. This is in spite of a majority of voters voting for Dems. Exit polls have not been reliable in America for the last 12 years due to the 'red shift' in elections caused by systematized vote stealing. Check out the Guns and Butter show aired on KPFA from this Tuesday. We will not have real elections until voting is verifiable and de-privatized and big money is kicked out of our election process.