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20score

(4,769 posts)
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 07:17 PM Sep 2012

Where Are You Going, Teabag Nation?

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What’s your vision of the future? Is it to destroy the middle class? Is that what you really want? You claim to be patriots, but every solution that you endorse, to every problem, whether that problem is real, imaged or magnified beyond recognition – makes things worse. From the Iraq War, to drug testing welfare recipients, to cutting social programs and fighting investments in infrastructure and education, to the demonization of teachers, to denying the science regarding evolution and climate change, you consistently do your part to weaken the middle class and drag our nation backward.

In order for problems to be addressed and solved, they first have to be acknowledged. And that needs to be done regardless of whether or not the reality involving said problem is uncomfortable. We should demand of every adult in the country that they react to difficult truths with at least as much dignity as we expect from the country’s eight year olds when they are told the truth about Santa Claus. This applies to all rejections of reality, but it is especially glaring regarding the environment and global warming. Your party’s platform on Protecting the Environment is the essence of irony. First there is the tacit admission that regulations have worked: “Efforts to reduce pollution, encourage recycling, educate the public, and avoid ecological degradation have been a success.” Then an insistence that we move in a more corporate friendly direction, away from what worked in the past, “…however, we need a dramatic change in the attitude of officials in Washington, a shift from a job-killing punitive mentality…” Yes, as if bringing back the polluted air and water of the sixties and seventies will have no detrimental effects. No health related illnesses, no effects on agriculture and tourism, no effects on industry that survives because of pristine areas; and of course, doing the right thing by future generations and other less tangible results are irrelevant and rarely brought up by your side. We constantly hear the figures pulled out of the considerable ass of Rush Limbaugh and others like him that regulating carbon would kill jobs and cost billions. Because as Rep. Fred Upton has said, the EPA has “…its foot firmly on the throat of our economic recovery.” To call that sentiment manure would do a grave injustice to fertilizer. Fertilizer does some good. Those who don’t believe in global warming, don’t understand global warming. Because if you did understand it, you would accept its existence. It boils down to this, in very simple terms. No one is disputing that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. This has been established science for over one hundred and fifty years when John Tyndall discovered its properties. Add that to another fact that no one disputes: That we are emitting billions of metric tons of this greenhouse gas into the air annually. When millions of years of accumulated and sequestered carbon is thrown back into the atmosphere, it will have an effect. Period. Stop whining that you may be slightly inconvenienced and read some actual science on global warming. Then start talking about what we should do. In other words, act like an adult.

Chris Hayes made an obvious yet brilliant observation about the fact that we can no longer tax the rich in this country. We have reached a stage that mimics third world and developing countries that don’t have the power to tax the rich and powerful. This goes to the heart of our investments in the future. If we don’t put enough of a value on our future generations or our infrastructure to pay for them, we will certainly lose them. We’re losing them already. Europe is decades ahead of us in infrastructure and our education system falls behind a little more every year. It’s not a lack of money that is the problem; it’s a skewed priority list.

In the last few years, teabags and those that lead them have been scapegoating teachers and union members for bringing down the economy. Like drug testing welfare recipients – which doesn’t save the government money, it costs. Florida had a net loss of $45,780.00 when it tested 4,086 applicants - this has a lot to do with punishing someone else and nothing to do with helping the economy. Forty years ago the private sector jobs had benefits and pensions. Those were taken away from most and the middle class is the weaker for it. Now you see people in the public sector that have benefits and instead of demanding yours back, you demand the public sector loses theirs. Digging one step lower and the middle class takes another big hit. Will you only be satisfied when there is no more middle class? Because that is the direction we are going, and you teabags seem to be insisting on it.

To address the Iraq War. Brilliant! So glad that your side has taken moral and financial responsibility for that disaster. The people who saw clearly what was to come have been celebrated for their efforts and something like that will never happen again.

Sure.

Your movement has combined the close-mindedness and judgmentalism of social conservatism, with the sociopathic corporatism of Ayn Rand. The libertarians are half right. Who consenting adults sleep with is neither their neighbors’ nor the government’s concern. (As long as it’s consenting adults, obviously.) Same with what an adult puts in his or her own body, as long as no one else gets hurt. Where all sane people agree, including the libertarians, is on the fact that one person’s freedom ends where it infringes on another’s. If one’s idea of fun is armed robbery, society has every right to stop that person from engaging in that activity. That is not victimless. Where libertarians are wrong, is in extending the freedom of the individual to corporations. By their own logic, crimes with victims should not be allowed. Well, corporate crimes are not victimless. Financial crimes can injure the entire world economy and pollution harms millions, both in their health and their pocketbook. So the teabags have managed to be self-righteous enough to stick their noses into people’s private lives, and remove themselves from their duty as citizens to rein in corporate malfeasance.

One can rightly put most of the culpability in the laps of the propagandists, that twisted symbiotic cabal consisting of the sociopaths in the media such as Limbaugh, Elders, all of Fox News, et al, the perfidious politicians like Ryan, Cantor and Inhofe, and the greedy, narcissistic, world class bescumbers that buy and sell talking heads and politicians like the average person buys clothes. But the propaganda gobblers, the teabaggers, are adults and cannot be let off the hook just because they’re slow thinkers.

The slow dismantling of the middle class, by taking away benefits and livable wages can only end up with a weak, small middle class, a very small ultra-wealthy and very powerful upper class and a large powerless lower class. You may have heard a lot of this before, but what you may not have heard is the name applied to those who fail to learn the obvious. Mumpsimus. (Look it up.) It fits.




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Where Are You Going, Teabag Nation? (Original Post) 20score Sep 2012 OP
Nice rant! punkin87 Sep 2012 #1
Thanks! 20score Sep 2012 #2
Full disclosure. punkin87 Sep 2012 #6
The Ts will go wherever their corporate masters lead them. They bought and paid for them. nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #3
Their function is to subdue Labor by means of Racism. nt patrice Sep 2012 #29
Yes!!! Duchess St.Rollins Sep 2012 #4
Thanks Duchess! 20score Sep 2012 #5
Guess we have a mutual friend. 20score Sep 2012 #17
We do... Duchess St.Rollins Sep 2012 #44
+ 1000 is right! Well done! suede1 Sep 2012 #7
Thank you! 20score Sep 2012 #8
Welcome. suede1 Sep 2012 #13
.... Duppers Sep 2012 #9
Duppers! 20score Sep 2012 #11
thank you... oldhippydude Sep 2012 #10
Welcome! 20score Sep 2012 #14
K&R nt abelenkpe Sep 2012 #12
Tea baggers lovemydog Sep 2012 #15
Exactly! 20score Sep 2012 #16
You could use a kick. punkin87 Sep 2012 #18
+1 freshwest Sep 2012 #35
Two thumbs up! hbskifreak Sep 2012 #19
Thanks my man! 20score Sep 2012 #20
Triggered by the attack on unions. 20score Sep 2012 #21
RIGHT!! Which in its most recent incarnation actually preceded Reagan. patrice Sep 2012 #28
Thanks for the info! 20score Sep 2012 #33
Kick. suede1 Sep 2012 #22
Another kick. suede1 Sep 2012 #23
Thanks. Would like to have some teabaggers see this. 20score Sep 2012 #24
And do you Flashmann Sep 2012 #26
some will -- we have our own stalkers of DU grasswire Sep 2012 #30
Thank you! 20score Sep 2012 #32
One more. suede1 Sep 2012 #25
There's only ONE problem that really matters to the Tea Party. That's why they are so confused patrice Sep 2012 #27
Well taken. 20score Sep 2012 #31
Karl Rove read 'Mein Kampf' BarackTheVote Sep 2012 #34
1984. 20score Sep 2012 #36
K&R! smirkymonkey Sep 2012 #37
Dead dogma draggers. lonestarnot Sep 2012 #38
Yep. 20score Sep 2012 #39
Thought this was going to go main page, J. suede1 Sep 2012 #40
Thanks! 20score Sep 2012 #41
K & R n/t ihavenobias Sep 2012 #42
Tea Party terrorists. Initech Sep 2012 #43

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)
15. Tea baggers
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:33 PM
Sep 2012

pushed for war against the wrong country, which cost us trillions. Endorsed tax cuts for the top 2%, which cost us trillions more.

Now say 'reduce the deficit.' Refuse to end the Bush tax cuts on the top 2%. Want to increase military spending & start more wars.

hbskifreak

(57 posts)
19. Two thumbs up!
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 12:42 AM
Sep 2012

And excellent use of the word "bescumbers" in a sentence; gold star for you. Thanks brutha for doin what you do.

-A

patrice

(47,992 posts)
28. RIGHT!! Which in its most recent incarnation actually preceded Reagan.
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 12:29 PM
Sep 2012

The 70s were a very interesting time. Nixon double-crossed the Unions.

http://books.google.com/books/about/Stayin_Alive.html?id=xz-EINoBGNcC

I know first hand how hostile Tea Party is to unions; they want to OWN Labor for their 1% masters.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
30. some will -- we have our own stalkers of DU
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 12:35 PM
Sep 2012

You may not know that there is a right-wing web site where Tbags and assorted misfits gather to talk about what they see on DU. Sometimes they even make trouble for DU-ers in real life. They watch us all the time here; apparently not industrious enough to create their own content.

I check out their site once a week or so. If I see them comment on your rant, I will let you know.

patrice

(47,992 posts)
27. There's only ONE problem that really matters to the Tea Party. That's why they are so confused
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 12:23 PM
Sep 2012

and counter-productive and hypocritical on all of the examples that you site, 20score.

Racism is the only thing that they actually care about. Here is their racist genealogy, researched by a gentleman who has studied racists and white supremacy all of his life: http://www.irehr.org/

Perhaps you have noticed, 20score, when someone isn't being honest and up front about their true agenda, they produce all kinds of crazy mixed-up ignorant contradictory bullshit, just like all of the stuff that you accurately ascribe to the Tea Party. All of that Tea Party chaos is the result of attempts to obscure their true identity: Racists.

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