Games, performance art, reverse psych is played all the time.
But nobody ever thinks about it.
Each side of the aisle engages in it and the sheep on both sides deny it.
That is how we ended up in this mess.
No, we ended up in this mess because of liberalism.
Games are played on both sides, but only one side can openly state its principles and its intentions.
If the leading progressives were to come out and declare, in a way that actually got through to the public: “Our founding belief is that the government has the authority to give and to take away human rights,” the Democratic party would sink like a rock, and never come up again.