Tea Party Hatred and Deception

The Tea Party most of all stands for the ugly America that George W. Bush represented. That America that a good portion of the American citizens hate and almost universally the citizens of the rest of the world hate. 

Why would from what Fox News tells us so many people want to return to that? My only conclusion can be  fear. I'm so tired of the endless media attention the Tea Party is getting. The Tea Party leadership is a group of very wealthy Southern attorneys who have been accused of having links to the KKK.  Whether or not that is the case the leaders of the "movement" have repeatedly made public racist statements. Its clear that at the basic level the Tea Party is an angry white religious political interest group ... that would happily bring back Southern Apartheid and violate the Constitution by forcing all Americans to be Christians. Turn on FOX news even and that is all you see angry white hillbilly types with racist, religious zealotry slogans painted on their placards ranting and raving made up "founding father" quotes senselessly. Its just an obstruction movement being funded by Wall Street and the Moral Majority. If it was a truly patriotic movement it would be a-political .. and its not ... its a whose who of the far right of the Republican party .... plain and simple. Just the latest political publicity stunt. Just angry McCain (McCan't) voters who are incensed that we have an African American president now and that the party that cares more about the average citizen is in power.  

The absolute deception about the "founding fathers" that has been going on for so long by conservatives is really laughable to me. Certainly if they were alive today many of the "founding fathers" would identify with the ultra right wing conservative Southerners, however Jefferson would likely be an Obama administration cabinet member and Franklin would as well. As for the rest its highly debatable and really a moot point. But this just demonstrates the idiocy bordering on insanity that the right wing uses. I feel it boils down to the religious connection. If your willing to basically tell lies and sell a system which is clearly a bunch of BS ... for your religion. Why would you have a problem making things up and telling lies to people about your politics?

The bottom line is the forces that control the Republican party are essentially in control of the Tea Party and the same hillbilly crazy right wingers are showing up at all the Tea Party gatherings and protests. The Republicans called the passing of the health care bill Kabuki theater ... well if you want to see real Kabuki theater take a look at the Republican led Tea Party movement. Its a "movement" that can say the things the Republicans can't yet the Tea Party is 100% beneficial to the Republican party. There is no criticism of the Republicans by the Tea Party ... essentially just a desire to return them to power ... so how is this a "movement" at all ... at the end of the day its just a carefully orchestrated get out the votes for conservatives "movement." 

Healthcare reform ... free at last ... free at last ... not yet

A friend on Facebook posted something to the effect of "thanks congress for passing the health care bill ... now I can pay for other people's health care."  I mean first of all I'm shocked that anyone would complain about paying taxes for health care for EVERYONE (just shows how selfish many Americans are) and second it shows how deeply the corporate rhetoric has permeated so many people in this country. Huge numbers of sheep following religious zealots and corporate shills ... they blindly parrot whatever they are told by Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck and Fox News. Anyway here was my quick and angry reply:

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Thanks for paying for my health care then ... I'm an unemployed father of four ... who earned 80K (with my wife's income well over 100K) per year for the past ten years paid tax up the ying yang and now make 30K. I myself don't currently have health care ... though just last year I had great health care. My wife and kids do through her work ... but... we can't afford to cover me ... every time any of them needs to go to the Dr. they have to pay 35 bucks which might not sound like alot but for us ... we feel it. I guess I'm irrelevant. I don't expect Republicans to care about me ... or my kids ... or anyone else ... they have their money ... they have their stuff ... everyone else can just die right :( We are all godless illegals (even though I'm a 6th generation Caucasian American of German-Finnish ancestry) by what I see on Fox and read in the anti-liberal rants. Basically its come down to the rich (or wannabe rich) teaming up with the right wing religious vs. everyone else. I feel I did everything right in life, went to school ... worked my way through college earned a BA and a Masters Degree ... worked hard to get a good job. Now thanks to Wall Street (the rich guys who took power with the help of the religious folks) ... I'm out of work with really little hope in sight ... so people decide to throw me a life line ... and now the same guys who put me out of work are throwing rocks at me while I try to get into the tiny little rubber dingy.

TEA Party = NAZI party?

Is the Tea Party the new "Brown Shirt" movement?

Anymore it feels like 50% of the American public really is ready for the next Adolf to come along. Seriously some of the things I hear people saying, some of the things the talking heads are spouting, some of the things people write online. I'm starting to understand how people in Germany in the 1930s must have felt. Again I ask is the Tea Party the new brown shirt movement? Many people seem to be getting so selfish in America now the old progressive, optimistic, helpful, can do attitude is gone. The generation that was the free love generation, the generation of hope, has morphed into a generation of hate and the "greatest generation" ... the generation that did so much is also the one that created many of the problems we are facing today, well those that are still alive from that generation, they are pretty hateful too. People joke about concentration camps but I don't really think its funny. I could see it happening. America the beautiful is transforming to America the hateful.

Is the American Political System Broken? That isn't the real question ...

Ok ... been awhile since I've had a political rant to put down in writing. Lately hearing the talking heads all spouting off about how the American political process is broken ... I just can't take anymore. For the love of all that is good in the universe ... from the time of the Constitutional convention (lets not even talk about the Articles of Confederation period of our history) critics, citizens and the media have been making that statement. I feel there is a single, fundamental flaw in the American political process that could be quite easily rectified. The two political party system is horrifyingly broken and it has been since its inception. Would a multi-party political system solve all the problems? No. Yet it might start giving the people of America, the common citizen, more of a voice in Washington. It might help restore the common American's faith in government and perhaps give the rest of the world hope that ... maybe America is coming around ... maybe they really do get it. It would certainly help break the strangle hold corporate America has on government.  Do I think that a multi-party system is inevitable? No. I think that such a move will be quashed by both the Democratic and Republican parties ... brutally ... with the aid of every company in America that has two nickles to donate to the cause of enslaving the citizenry. In short ... while I think it would usher in a political renaissance and give us all renewed hope and energy ... such a wondrous event is as likely to occur as a lottery win for me. It is just not going to happen.

This is why the American political system is broken ... has been broken for a long, long time ... and will continue to spiral downward. The Democratic and Republican parties do not represent the average American ... they just don't. I know very few people ... D or R ... who are happy with their party or feel their party represents even a fraction of their true interests. Our nation is far to large and far to diverse to have only two choices. If someone is a fiscal conservative but liberal on social issues ... what party would they select?? What if someone is a staunch gun rights advocate but happens to be an atheist who believes in public health care ... what party would they join? There are endless other concerns people might have that neither party cares about. Both parties are totally co-opted by corporate America ... lock, stock and barrel ... Wall Street owns the American Political process. It matters not who is in the white house or who controls congress ... Wal-Mart, Google, Exxon, etc. etc. have their interests represented first and foremost .. often at the major expense of the vast majority of Americans. What if that is one's main concern ... reigning in corporations ... there is no party which represents that interest. So hearing people complain about a third or fourth or tenth party ... well ... one thing is clear ... there is no hope for the average American anymore. We are chattel, slaves to giant immortal corporations whose only care is grinding our bones to generate ROI for largely foreign investors. Who knows maybe that is the new American Dream ... endless fiscal enslavement ... with the only escape to go deeper into debt, tune out the bleak reality by taking whatever mind numbing pleasure one can ... until you end up dead or in jail. Meanwhile quality of life spirals downwards, the contribution of America to the world declines ... and idiocy reigns supreme ... just as the immoral, immortal corporations want it ....