Why I continue to call them "tea baggers"
I greatly lament the death of nuance in our culture, and it's perfectly exemplified by the so called 'tea party' movement. A 'movement' so removed form popular culture that they initially referred to themselves, they picked their own name, with a euphemism for someone having balls dunked in their mouths. They picked their name, we just laughed at them for it.
But that's not the reason I continue to call them tea baggers. I do that because they're the people that were carrying signs of such nuanced political insight as "Keep Government Out of my Medicare." The sheer weight of their intellectual curiosity is scary. These are the same people that carried signs of Obama as a monkey, or eating bananas, or a tribal witch doctor with a bone in his nose and claimed they were not racist. These are the same people, like Michelle Bachmann, how decried Rick Perry's HPV program, that actually can save lives, as an unacceptable intrusion into personal choice but then says if elected she'll pass a law forcing women seeking abortions to have an intrusive medical procedure designed specifically and unapologetically to push women to not have the abortion, using government to force her moral and religious ideology on the rest of the country.
It's not government these people have a problem with, it's other peoples government they have a problem with. Anything that empowers someone else by default threatens them. It's a zero sum game for them. I've stated this before. If someone else has their rights expanded, then by their faith based math their rights are being restricted. it goes hand in hand, it's accepted faith for these people. They hate other peoples government.
Lastly, the entire "movement' is bogus. It's 90% disaffected Republicans that left the party for various reasons since Reagan, and the other 10% are the same old small l libertarians that have been sniffing around the GOP for decades, showing up at caucuses and voting for Ron Paul and generally being a pain in the party's rear end. The entire thing is being paid for and organized by establishment GOP groups and fronts like AFP and the Koch's as well as American Crossroads, which is a Gingrich op for God's sake.
And that's why I continue to call them tea baggers, because they continue to open their mouths and prove their ignorance every day. They have no clue they're being used, though they're starting to find that out, same as the evangelicals did when Bush and the party leadership dumped them after the elections. These people are tools, and not themselves, but for someone else.
But that's not the reason I continue to call them tea baggers. I do that because they're the people that were carrying signs of such nuanced political insight as "Keep Government Out of my Medicare." The sheer weight of their intellectual curiosity is scary. These are the same people that carried signs of Obama as a monkey, or eating bananas, or a tribal witch doctor with a bone in his nose and claimed they were not racist. These are the same people, like Michelle Bachmann, how decried Rick Perry's HPV program, that actually can save lives, as an unacceptable intrusion into personal choice but then says if elected she'll pass a law forcing women seeking abortions to have an intrusive medical procedure designed specifically and unapologetically to push women to not have the abortion, using government to force her moral and religious ideology on the rest of the country.
It's not government these people have a problem with, it's other peoples government they have a problem with. Anything that empowers someone else by default threatens them. It's a zero sum game for them. I've stated this before. If someone else has their rights expanded, then by their faith based math their rights are being restricted. it goes hand in hand, it's accepted faith for these people. They hate other peoples government.
Lastly, the entire "movement' is bogus. It's 90% disaffected Republicans that left the party for various reasons since Reagan, and the other 10% are the same old small l libertarians that have been sniffing around the GOP for decades, showing up at caucuses and voting for Ron Paul and generally being a pain in the party's rear end. The entire thing is being paid for and organized by establishment GOP groups and fronts like AFP and the Koch's as well as American Crossroads, which is a Gingrich op for God's sake.
And that's why I continue to call them tea baggers, because they continue to open their mouths and prove their ignorance every day. They have no clue they're being used, though they're starting to find that out, same as the evangelicals did when Bush and the party leadership dumped them after the elections. These people are tools, and not themselves, but for someone else.
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