Thursday, September 16, 2010

Tea Partiers Speak and Scare the Pants Off of Me

It all started with Tom T at Two Seeds On a Blog. If he hadn't written such a lucid article called The Myth of the Founding Fathers (HERE), the wing-nut blood pleasure levels wouldn't have shot up to near catastrophic heights. It's odd how intelligent mild mannered reason from one source can cause such anger and near hysteria from another.

Just a few highlights so you can see how Tom T riled up the know-nothings. What a guy.
Led by Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, Tea Party worshippers of the Founding Fathers want to return to the “good ol’ days” of 1787, when most African-Americans were slaves, many poor whites were indentured servants, and women couldn’t vote. At the time the Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, Native Americans were being slaughtered for their land, and Mexicans who were indigenous to the Southwest and the West coast of what became the United States were included in the genocide.
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Conservatives have trouble seeking sensible solutions to our present-day problems of poverty, violence, and perpetual war that make rich folks richer while poor people suffer and weapons makers and war profiteers make big bucks while killing and injuring innumerable innocent people. The problems are caused by big moneyed interests with the help of simple minded sycophants like Beck, Sarah Palin and the Tea Partiers. . . . The Tea Partiers believe the mythologized Founding Fathers are more intelligent and moral than anyone today except maybe radical right-wingers like Beck and Palin.

At this point Tom T provides an intriguing analysis of Glenn Beck, including his psyche, Beck's speech at his Come to Jesus rally on August 28, Palin's cliches, and the Tea Party mythology. The comments are just as absorbing so you have to jump over there (HERE). But not before you read what follows.

Judy T, the other seed on their blog, is understandably upset over some of the hate language that has been sent Tom T's way. She tells us to Listen to the Tea Partiers Speak for Themselves. (HERE) She writes:
Tom posted on our blog recently about the Restoring Honor Rally in Washington.  It was a controversial post that elicited a lot of angry comments, on our blog and several other places where it had been published or reposted. He was called some really bad names!  The commentors said over and over that he was an angry man (that was the nicest thing they said about him).
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I found a video of a young reporter who had been there, circulating through the crowd, interviewing ordinary people, people who had come with friends and family to be part of the huge event. They were eager to talk to the young man, and very enthusiastic about sharing their views.

Proceed with caution. In fact, you might want to brace yourself with a stiff Jack Daniels with no branch water. Maybe even two.




These paranoid folks need some heavy counseling and anger management classes. More importantly, if our education system doesn't improve, these poor ignorant people are going to pass their handicaps on from one generation to the next. This 13 minutes of ignorance boggles my mind and makes me worry for the future of our country.

6 comments:

  1. I watched, I threw up in my mouth while I watched it, but I watched the entire thing. I posted it over on my 'blog and on Facebook. I really don't understand how these people can live with themselves.

    Do you know how sad I am that I wish McCain had won in 2008? NOT that he would have done a better job, of course, because NO ONE could fix 8 years of Bush BS in 15 minutes or 15 months or maybe in 15 years, but because I am sick of this President being blamed for those same 8 years of BS now.

    I do truly wish there was a way we could give them their country back, but their country never existed.

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  2. I watched, I saw, I wept. To some extent their utopia did exist and it was so intolerable it caused a revolution. In the long run, that revolution may have failed to chance anything. Revolutions are like that.

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  3. Frankly, I did not watch the whole video. The empty platitudes and the fruits of Astroturfing were too painful to watch.

    But I know the rhetoric. I hear it in my community, catch news clips on TV, and have actually tried to carry on a conversation with one of them. There seems to be one undercurrent: "Why can't my stupid opinion command the same respect as them elitists?"

    Perhaps they should see their local garage mechanic when they go into cardiac arrest. Have their local barber perform surgery on them. Or have their Uncle Fester write their last will and testament instead of a lawyer.

    This is without doubt the Age of Idiocracy.

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  5. While my personal experience only begins in the mid-20th century in my view this crowd differs almost not at all from the endless list of reactionary groups which have infected our politics since the very beginning of the republic. The 'founding fathers' ranged from the truly enlightened to the outright criminal and the battles they waged with one another continue unabated.

    Don't throw up.

    Doorbell. Canvass. Write checks. Get involved.

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