They're here. I thought they were just on TV. I didn't like how close they were to me. Isn't that the silliest thing? You'd think I was talking about aliens landing in my front yard. I'm talking about the Tea Party. They were having a demonstration in a very busy intersection a couple blocks away from my home yesterday. I got the opportunity to watch and witness the event from my car while waiting for the light to turn green. I noticed the confederate flag and the don't tread on me flag waving in the breeze. I noticed the old guy with the megaphone talking about freedom, the old people walking across the street holding their signs high in the air, and all four corners were pretty much a mirrored image of each other. What stuck out in my mind the most? That they were all senior citizens that are being misinformed. Little do they realize what they are supporting and what will be taken away from them by doing so.
Time for a fresh pot...
I totally agree with with the notion of the tea partiers being disinformed. It is actually really sad to see. There's a cool quote I heard at a bell hooks lecture the other day. "Some people have some very deep thoughts about things they know very little about" I couldn't help but to think of the Tea Party.
ReplyDeleteIt IS very sad. Medicare would be one of the first things to go if the Tea Party had their way. It's already a very bad situation that working citizens have in trying to come up with the funds to cover their health care. Imagine being retired on a fixed, smaller income and trying to come up with health care funds during a time in your life when you especially need health coverage!
ReplyDelete"Some people have some very deep thoughts about things they know very little about"
ReplyDeleteYep, I completely agree Flor! Coffee?
MM, I don't know how the Koch brothers can live with themselves! If these Grandmas and Grandpas only knew who the Koch brothers were, if they only knew that Hannity and Beck are f#*&ing liars, if they only knew that media is not the same as it was when Walter Cronkite was reporting... someone get me a decaf!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou poor thing, exposed to teabaggers like that! UGH! LOL!
ReplyDeleteMy little town paper had an article today about a teabagger get together in Trenton, said these people need to get their act together to start organizing to put baggers into office next election, great, just friggin great! And here I thought they were a dying breed...
It really is a shame these seniors don't have a clue what they are standing with when they support the teabaggers, I guess it'll take their SS checks dwindling or their Medicare taken away before they get wise. But then they will just blame Obama... Yikes...
Hiya Sue! What to do about misinformed people? I KNOW! Have my 12 year old build a rocket that crashes into the Faux Snooze satellite and blow the whole thing up! LOL!
ReplyDeleteMaureen Dowd wrote an excellent piece about the problem with the Tea Party's ignorance in what they support-- specifically, their vigorous support for Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." Even though the financial aspects of Rand's philosophy have already been proven to be disastrous, (due to innate human greed), and her other views are far more liberal than the Tea Party would ever accept, they STILL support Rand's philosophy. Talk about being blind and confused. Here is a snippet from Dowd's commentary:
ReplyDeleteMaureen Dowd, New York Times (4-17-2011): "She (Ayn Rand) wrote about Nietzschean superheroes who made things. She died before capitalism evolved into a vampire casino where you could bet against investments you sold to your clients, and make money off something you didn’t own or that existed only on paper. ...Greed had a less ennobling effect on real genius capitalists. Instead of fighting the looters, they joined the looters. What Rand and acolytes like Alan Greenspan failed to realize is that if everyone acts in self-interest and no one takes into account the weakness to the entire system that occurs when everybody indulges in the same kind of risky behavior, the innocent and the guilty are engulfed. Nevertheless, Rand is blazing back as an icon of the Tea Party, which overlooks her atheism, amorality in romance and vigorous support for abortion."
I don't believe the Tea Party members have done their studies too well.
Thanks MM for doing your homework! Of course the Tea Party get their information from the fiction section at the library or if they can't make it to the library, they watch the ever popular propaganda TV shows owned by Rupert Murdock. Either way, I'm off to get a strong cup of caffeine!
ReplyDeleteExcellent post and points by all. Maureen Dowd's points are well taken too. Atlas Shrugged is not your average book for your average reader. I would be willing to bet few of the Tea Partiers ever read it.
ReplyDeleteIn case you're wondering, I'm an average reader. I got about halfway through Fountainhead in college and promised myself I would never read another Ayn Rand book again...zzzzzzzzzzzzz
LOL! That's pretty funny Heather! Thanks for stopping by as I kind of ranted on your blog!!! Love when post make me feel so caffeinated!!
ReplyDeleteI noticed the confederate flag
ReplyDeleteThe Confederate flag is the symbol of the most vicious treason against this country in its whole history. Period. Anybody who displays the Confederate flag is either anti-American in the worst sense, or is a lot more seriously "misinformed" than what you're thinking of here.
I completely agree with you 753! Thanks for stopping by. Coffee?
ReplyDeleteGads, we only saw half a dozen here...I think they are becoming an endangered species 'round these parts. There is so much misinformation and it's a shame in this time when "Emergency Financial Managers" are dismantling democratically-elected state governments> 'Tis a shame that they can't focus on the real issues, like privatization of Social Security and Medicare, which will end retirement as they know it.
ReplyDeleteGreat post - short and sweet, but packed with our daily recommended requirement of caffeine!
I bet you're talking about Benton Harbor huh MP? What a night mare and it just gets downright scarier by the minute! Thanks for all you do over on your blog, it's important! Time for a refill...
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