What do the teaparty folks really want?

[srican69]

all talk about deficits and healthcare is all BS ... What The Fuck do these assholes really want ( if they could get it)

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	They dont know - but they dont want an African-American in the white house
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	Civil war
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[factsarenotfair]

1. White male supremacy, same as the Confederacy.

I'm starting to feel like the Civil War never ended, it just went into a lull.

[Scootaloo]

2. To be honest,I think they'd happily have a black man in there, if he were Herman Cain or Allen West

You know, a black man that they felt "served them."

No, what the Tea Party wants is exactly what Grover Norquist wanted - to drown the government in a bathtub. They have no idea what that means, they have no idea how to accomplish it, and they have no idea what the consequences will be. But they know that they hate government, and that's as far as their brains can go on the matter.

[Jamaal510]

4. +1

[Rex]

3. Anarchy.

They might not know it themselves...but they support anarchy.

[NightWatcher]

16. You took my answer

They THINK they want the government to close for good, but they all depend on it.

[Kablooie]

5. They want to replay the Civil War and expect to win this time.

That's why they are so fanatical about being able to stock up on weapons of war.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

6. To stand on a green field with a buncha guys in kilts behind them ...

... armed with spears and pikes and all that, and yell FREEDOOMMM!!!!

Then fight. Of course, in their dreams they win and come out, like good ol' Mel Gibson, smeared in other people's blood, not their own.

Beyond that, they have no freakin clue.

[Scootaloo]

8. Doesn't Wallace end up castrated, eviscerated, lynched, and quartered?

[Benton D Struckcheon]

13. That's later.

They don't think more than one move ahead. If they did, this wouldn't be happening.

[liberal_at_heart]

7. I think they want to cripple the power of the federal government and return power to the states.

[Tikki]

9. And when their state happens to be victim to a huge natural disaster or a...

plague or a mass exodus of young ones or internal infighting will they then attack other States to get what they want?

They want a battle for supremacy..this I believe.


Tikki

[TransitJohn]

10. They just want to be on the 'winning' side.

They picked a side, and it is out of power, and that infuriates them.

[wandy]

11. You might best ask what the people who fund and mobilize them want........

It would be the same people who fund the talking heads that fill republicans little brains with shouts of, lyberduy and freedum and sell them little yellow flags with snakes on them.

Heck, they'd want A Kama Sutra coffee pot and a baby's arm holding an apple if that was what fox news told them to want.

[Coyotl]

12. They don't klnow what their masters want.

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

14. All power to money, death to the poor.

Purification, a big die-off event, the world as we know it torn down and rebuilt into their imagined paradise. The end of the world, to prompt the fulfillment of prophecy, religious or secular. To never have to know or care at all about people they don't like, and never be blamed or shamed for it. To finally end the ability of populations to rule themselves and hand all true power over to corporations and their primary owners. To never again have anyone tell them, "No." To have their worldviews and beliefs finally validated, by changing reality. Fame and fortune and respect. Absolute power. Absolute freedom.

I don't think they all want the same thing. A lot of them seem to have come from various RW movements which have been manipulated repeatedly by Republicans but never given what they were promised. They're angry, some of them are crazy, a lot of them aren't thinking ahead, most of them don't seem to care about consequences. They're beyond caring. They're beyond thinking, except to plot and justify their actions. They want short term gains, they want to make a statement.

Nine hells, I don't know what they want. I hope all my guesses are wrong, and there are human beings in there somewhere, who love their mothers and care about family and friends, who sometimes just want to cuddle a cat. Whatever is going on with them, they're in an extreme place and we should be trying to help calm them down rather than rile them up more and more, but our culture doesn't work that way.

[cynatnite]

15. I would have chosen shrinking the government until they could drown it in the tub. n/t

[meow2u3]

17. They want a tyranny of a minority, a.k.a., Calhounism

Southern Conservatives Revive Calhounism—Tyranny of the Minority

South Carolina has, again, caught the nullification bug. As reported by The State, Republican lawmakers have proposed a bill that would allow the state attorney general to take a business to court if he has “reasonable cause to believe” that implementing the law would harm people.

This idea is in wide currency now, but it wasn’t in the middle of the 19th century. Then, an influential wing of Southern conservatives—led by the fiery John C. Calhoun of South Carolina—pushed the view that the federal government was subordinate to the states, who could nullify the Union at any time. This was an ideology borne of history—the exact nature of the constitutional pact signed in 1783 was unclear—and of economics. Calhoun and his allies, intellectual and political, were overwhelmingly slave owners, deeply invested in the system of bondage and white supremacy that supported their society.

Calhoun died in 1850—10 years before Lincoln won the presidency and sparked a rebellion among Southern states—but his ideas motivated and inspired the secessionists.

Of course, the Civil War settled the broad question of national authority. But Calhoun’s core idea—that political minorities owed no allegiance to the decisions of majorities—lived on. It found refugee in the Southern wing of the Democratic Party—through segregationists who opposed every effort to pass civil rights laws and end state-sponsored violence against African-Americans—and eventually fused with conservative ideology in the 1960s and ’70s as the center of gravity in the GOP moved from the West to the South.

[2naSalit]

19. I think that's the "tool"

employed by the Kocheads and their ilk to get these sh*t4branez to help them win their shock doctrine agenda for the sake of fascism.

[Orsino]

18. Five (trillion) bucks, same as in town. n/t

[bravenak]

20. Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forevah!!!!!

In lieu of that they will accept Sasha, Malia, 3 fetuses, 1 ounce of endangered rhino horn, the missing Benghazi files, eye of newt and witch hazel, George Bush's codpiece, and 3 thousand gallons of white lightening.

[lonestarnot]

21. Who gives a flying fuck what they want...

[MiniMe]

22. To be in charge

They want a dictatorship

[yuiyoshida]

23. That would have been my answer...Remember Bush?