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My husband has long quoted George Costanza's "Rules of the Opposites " from the Seinfeld Show. For those who don't remember, George started a run of successful jobs and relationships when he started doing the opposite of what he thought he should do. For example, he went to a job interview with the Yankees and was rude to Steinbrenner, who of course thought he was aggressive and just what the organization needed.

I just read this article to my husband, who said the rule should be extended to all aspects of the democrats. When they say they "feel your pain" they are getting ready to CAUSE pain. When they say they are for the working man, they mean they hold him in contempt.

I really, really like your analogy to the Hall of Mirrors. The Court at Versailles was concerned with appearances, bon mots, posturing, and generally cared not a whit about the common folk. Excellent, excellent analogy. I hope you write an essay expanding on it.

"Hall of Mirrors" ... "Rules of the Opposites"

As I've spent years being taught (the hard way) by a member of my family, a common mental disease is to see in others the failures and evils that live in one's own heart that one is afraid to admit to. I think it's called "projection".

The easiest way for me to guess what that person has screwed up most recently is to listen to what they blame me for.

At times its comical, as once when said person jumped all over me for being mean to my brother-in-law when I had just come back from a couple of easy going, enjoyable hours with him. I've never had an angry word with him in this life. Guess who was holding back angry mean thoughts of him.

At times I think this is the essence, on the personal level, of the Liberal Diesease: seeing in others the unacknowledged failures of one self.