Jigsaw

The Sideshow:

And it was necessary to use issues like race, abortion, and gays not simply to alienate people from the Democratic Party, but to make lots of people hate anything that was associated with liberals and liberalism. (Not that they aren't still racists or anything.) And we now have a substantial part of the population that is allergic to anything "liberal" even though they actually support liberalism. [Emphasis in original.]

cites Stirling Newberry of Corrente:

In the rest of the developed world consumption is taxed to pay for education and health care, in the United States, health care and education are taxed to pay for consumption.

There are entirely too many masks and mirrors in this game.