The GOP has betrayed us, too. We can honestly say that conservatives tried to beat socialism within the GOP. But we have to admit, the GOP defeated us...just like they did in the most recent debt deal.
So the GOP gets the credit of conservatives who have been working to overcome the liberals for decades. But in the end both parties joined hands and decided to take a nose dive together while shouting down conservative “extremists” - terrorists, schitzoids, hobbits, taliban, racists, sexists... They did is over and over and over again until we arrived at where we are.
And so it will continue until we truly are 100% bankrupt, with everyone out of work, infrastructure crumbling, the old and sick truly not being cared for, and finally a Fascist or Communist dictatorship or some kind of mutation between the two ruling every aspect of our lives. It's getting closer by the minute.