According
to the dictionary definition, a traitor is one who betrays a person, a
principle, or especially their country. It is of no consequence why
someone, or a group, chooses to work in opposition to their nation, or
fellow citizens’ well-being,
because if their intent and result of their actions is to deliberately
damage or cause harm to their country or fellow citizens, they are by
definition traitors. It is likely that throughout America’s short
history, except for the traitorous Confederacy, no group of individuals
has exhibited the characteristic betrayal of a traitor more than
conservatives in general, and Republicans in particular. What makes
their actions all the more despicable is that their traitorous actions
are founded on racial animus for one man; and allegiance to foreigners
and one tiny segment of the population.
These
Republicans’ malicious, calculated, and concerted acts of betrayal of
their country and its people started the evening of Barack Obama’s first
inauguration and, despite his overwhelming re-election victory in 2012,
they have persisted unabated and in fact continue to grow. Of course
the latest blatant example of betrayal is Speaker of the House John
Boehner violating a 216 year-old federal law by “joining with the leader of a foreign nation against his own president.” That was the assessment in a scathing article published in the conservative magazine Forbes that rightly asserted that Boehner “seeking
to damage any American President by helping a foreign leader can never
be considered something that is best for the nation.” That comment, in a nutshell, elucidates exactly why Republicans are traitors to America; they have no regard whatsoever for “what is best for the nation”
or its people. Coupled with their blatant disregard for the
Constitution they swore to uphold, their opposition to what is best for
the nation has become the defining characteristic of the 21st Century
conservative movement and it is why they are traitors.
The Republican drive to subvert this nation and its people’s well-being began when they met andsecretly plotted to
undermine economic recovery after they just spent 8 long years creating
the Great Recession for the benefit of the rich; including
starting two wars of religious aggression. At no time in history has a
group of political leaders purposely conspired to destroy the nation’s
economic well-being as Republicans did on Inauguration night in January
2009. They ramped up their war on the economy in 2011 when they nearly
destroyed the full faith and credit of the United States that the
Constitution states “shall not be questioned,” much less
deliberately decimated. The constitutional betrayal garnered America’s
first credit downgrade in history and a ploy they came precariously
close to repeating in 2013 when they shut down the government by
betraying their Constitutional mandate to legislate for the “people’s general welfare;”
all over their opposition to Americans having access to affordable
healthcare. It was a betrayal of their fellow citizens, and their oath
to uphold the Constitution that tasks them to pass legislation, not shut
down the government or
threaten a credit default. Over the past six years, Republicans have
shown that their allegiance to the Constitution is as non-existent as
their allegiance to this country or their fellow citizens.
Republicans
have compiled a despicable record of betraying Americans by conspiring
and plotting to rob them of their wealth and transferring it, by way of
tax cuts, to multi-national
corporations with American-sounding names; all while assisting them to
avoid taxes by protecting their ill-gotten gains in foreign banks. In
fact, the Republican drive to enrich another foreign entity,
TransCanada, at the expense of America’s environment, the people’s
health, and economy is, as Forbes noted, “something that can never be considered in the best interest for the nation;”
as if any American traitor ever considered what was in the best
interest of the nation. Republicans also betrayed the Constitution by
conspiring with foreigners (Canadians) to undermine the Executive Branch
and upset the balance of power to benefit a foreign corporation, other
foreign nations’ energy needs, and two un-American John Birch devotees.
Maybe
more than anything, Republicans have betrayed America by attempting to
destroy the principles in the Constitution they apparently despise as
much as the nation and its people. There is no greater example than a
massive concerted effort to obstruct and eliminate Americans’ right to
vote in states Republicans control with valuable assistance from the
conservative Supreme Court; a conservative cabal that has as little
regard for, or allegiance to, the Constitution or America as Republicans
in Congress and the states. In fact, in what is a telling commentary
about Republican’s betrayal of the Constitution, a little over a week
ago two Democrats in Congress felt the pressing need to propose a
Constitutional amendment to “recognize voting as a fundamental American right.” Americans already “had”
constitutionally-guaranteed fundamental voting rights, including two
long-established amendments extending the right to vote to women and
people of color and not just white Christian males. But those
Constitutional rights are vanishing due to Republican traitors to the
Constitution and America’s representative democracy.
A
list detailing the myriad ways Republicans betray the Constitution is
extensive beginning with supporting religious fanatics successful
efforts to control women, to supporting treasonous armed anti-government
militias confronting and threatening federal agents, to giving
corporations supremacy over citizens, to legislating discriminatory
policies denying other Americans’ their constitutionally-guaranteed
equal rights. Two years ago, and many time since, Republicans called for
armed rebellion against the United States government if Americans
re-elected Barack Obama as their President; something that anyone would
regard as traitorous including calling for for a second revolution,
threatening “Second
Amendment remedies” against the government, and all manner of
Republican-led state legislation ininuating armed threats against
federal officials enforcing federal laws.
Their traitorous acts to destroy the economy and conspire with foreigners to undermine the
Separation of Powers and office of the President are also betrayals of
the Constitution they swore to uphold. The Republicans’ six year crusade
to destroy the nation’s economy is not only traitorous; it is
unprecedented in American history and still ongoing. One wonders,
really, if there is anything about America, its Constitution, or its
people Republicans will not betray to advance the interests of the rich,
foreign nations, and foreign corporations.
The Constitution is very concise and clear as to the job Republicans in Congress are expected to perform and it is primarily “to
lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts
and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United
States.” It is not to betray America by working with foreign
leaders to undermine the Executive branch, not to assist foreign nations
and corporations in their pursuit of profit, and not to dismantle the
Constitution for theocrats and corporations. Republicans are turncoats
with no interest whatsoever in what is “best for the nation” or
its people. They have done nothing whatsoever over the past six years
that was not an act of
treachery against the American people, the Constitution, or the nation
they show nothing but contempt for and it is because the people elected
an African American man as their President and in doing so exposed
Republicans as traitors and enemies of state.
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