Maybe what bothers me the most about tea partiers is they're extremists. For example, they think one of the most conservative members of Congress, Sam Johnson from Plano, Texas (a bastion of white affluence) is a sellout to 'The Man' and they're backing a tea party candidate to run against Johnson in the Republican primary. Johnson is a former Vietnam POW who rates 100% on any conservative voting chart.
So when nearly everyone is to the left of you, where do you find yourself? In an itty-bitty, lilly-white, redneck pack to the extreme right, screaming that everyone else is a communist or a socialist. Tea partiers need to spend less time picketing and more time getting therapy and meds for their paranoia.
Tea partiers like to say that they -- and ONLY they -- represent 'true American values.' That's a bunch of bull. As time has passed and tea party views have been examined and exposed, the pack to the extreme right has gotten smaller and smaller and the tea party has lost nearly all its influence. I could give many examples, but the obvious one is this: Primaries are largely controlled by party activists, and the activists in the Republican Party tend to be to the right. Yet of all the GOP candidates, which one wins? Mitt Romney, the one who LEAST represents tea party ideology.
To me, tea partiers are just duped, unsophisticated, uneducated puppy dogs for big corporate interests. They don't understand the Constitution. They have no sympathy for others. They lead crappy lives and are easily entranced by the big-mouth right wingnut commentators who reinforce their preexisting prejudices. Why take responsibility for your failure when you can blame 'The Man'?
Except for my friend Kayla. Haha.
Originally Posted by ShysterJon
You're nothing but an ignorant douche bag and you're full of shit.
The Tea party is a movement, not a political party. It's followers are made up of Democrats as well as Republicans, white as well as black, Independents as well as Libertarians......Many of them are older people who are pissed off about Obamacare and how it has gutted Medicare.
Who are all sick and tired of the unaccountable economics of Washington D.C.
Plan and simple.
The movement isn't about any moral values.
No one is trying to stop you from killing babies.
Now...if you happen to be a tax and spend kind of person, which most Liberals are, you will make up any kind of lie you can about the movement to protect your own agenda.
Balanced budgets and sound economic and tax policy are radical ideas to you.