Texas Governor Rick Perry's recent remarks that the Obama Administration's--and, in particular, the head of the Federal Reserve's--actions on the economy amount to "almost treason" suggest that we should ask ourselves what else might constitute treason?
For instance, when a Governor of a State suggests that his state may secede from the Union, is that "almost treason?"
When a candidate for political office suggests that a public official be executed, is that "almost treason?"
Treason usually involves a conspiracy, so if the person who committed these "almost treasonous" acts gets chosen by his party to take over the government, what is that?
I do hope, sincerely, that our politicians try their best to ignore the radical fringe at both extremes of the political spectrum and find a middle path that allows them to work together to solve our country's problems. We have never been an "all or nothing" country. We've always governed amid multiple ideologies, multiple strategies, multiple pressures, and multiple ideas about what constitutes service to the people. Today, we desperately need to find the middle. If the politicians, individually, cannot do that, then the electorate--the people that the Constitution was written to protect--needs to select politicians who can work in the messy middle of our political system in order to protect our long-term interests as a nation.
Meanwhile, people like Rick Perry should take care that their rhetoric does not cause others to ask the same questions of them.
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