They say it is about "freedoms"...but they can point to no freedoms that have been lost over the last 14 months.Indeed.
They say the Constitution is being destroyed, but when you ask them what parts of The General Welfare Clause or Congresses' power to regulate Interstate Commerce are being violated...they stand mute with rage
They say it is about taxes...but they can find no drastic tax increases in the last 14 months.
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And they say they want their Country Back.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
The Roots of Tea-Party Rage
Via Balloon Juice, comes the best explanation that I've read.
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Actually I think these roots may more accurately explain the rage.
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"I'd say what's going on is that some of us can't quite believe how deeply rooted the Reagan/Limbaugh/Murdoch political narrative is in America, a narrative that says that all evil derives from people like us. We still think there's a hint of FDR in most Americans' thoughts, and there is to the extent that they're entirely willing to accept that Social Security and Medicare largess -- but that doesn't mean they think that we, the people who admire FDR the most and who want to take inspiration from FDR for the future, have anything to offer them. Reagan and Limbaugh and Savage and Hannity and O'Reilly and Coulter and Beck have told these people for thirty years that we're evil, and that's the unchangeable center of tea party ideology.
And some of us just can't believe that. We see people who are angry about the financial meltdown, angry about bailouts, angry about D.C. corruption, and we just can't believe that anger doesn't have an iota of progressivism in it.
It doesn't. It just has revanchism. They hate us, therefore all their theories about what's wrong must define us as the source of all evil -- even if it means that they believe, say, the bizarre theory that ACORN and Goldman Sachs are somehow allies in a sinister White House plot to destroy capitalism. They're not going to come around to the notion that business needs more regulation or the rich ought to be taxed a bit more or a government social program might blunt the worst impacts of turbocapitalism. Those are sinister sophisticated East Coast lawyer/financier/multicultural ideas. They want no part of them.
Some of us can't believe that. So we reach out our hands. We're crazy to try." [posted by Steve M.]
Or to put it another way, we evil ones have destroyed Mayberry. Therefore, we, the evil ones, must also be destroyed. Hmmm...sounds kinda like a Biblical thing...which would make sense. ;-)
Patrick @ http://thebigempty-bjork.blogspot.com