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We might well call such a maneuver a super-lie, an ultra-lie or a meta-lie.
It's significant enough that we should hold a contest to decide on the best label for it.
>In order to establish a totalitarian regime, terror must be presented as an instrument for carryiing out a specific ideology; and that ideology must have won the adherance of many, and even a majority, before terror can be stabilized
- Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism
Its the meta lie of a nascent totalitarian movement. I've been reluctant to say that for a while now, but I can't not say it anymore. The movement LOOKS and SOUNDS like a nascent totalitarian movement. I thought I was possibly just paranoid, but when it was pointed out to me that Joe Conason had actually written the book (its ad is all over this page) I was jokingly suggesting someone should write ... and when I read the conclusion of Altemeyer's The Authoritarians and he said that if you understand what's going on you've got to start informing others ... then that pretty much convicned me of the need to start trying to make more people aware of the parallels.
"Liberals" are becoming the feindbild of movement conservatism.
