YUP!
They figure if they can pander to the new minority with big mouths, they'll empower a new voter base to help keep them in power....so long as things aren't settled, they can claim to be "working to resolve the issue" so long as we keep re-electing these fucktards and We keep paying them.
Gotta go to the Library this afternoon, seems they have some books on the History of the French Revolution.