Sherrod Brown:How to fight Tea Party's faux populism

[cal04]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-10-04-column04_ST1_N.htm

Progressives are an impatient bunch. We fight for people who have waited too long already — for health care, for educational opportunity, for jobs to keep them in the middle class.

But for generations, conservatives have appealed to fear to protect the privileged and preserve the status quo — fear of immigrants, fear of diversity, fear of big government. For conservatives in 2010, it's easy:

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To fight back, progressives must talk about the historic accomplishments of the last 18 months in specific, understandable terms:

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The Tea Party vision of 21st century America would gut Medicare and Social Security, ignore the minimum wage, and scale back consumer protections and regulations that keep Wall Street honest and our food supply safe. It seems to me that Tea Party activists, increasingly influential in the Republican Party, do not seem to much like America the way we are.

[babylonsister]

1. "progressives must talk about the historic accomplishments of the last 18 months ..."

No kidding! I love this guy! Rec'd!

Thanks, cal04, for another winner! :thumbsup:

[tabatha]

2. Sherrod Brrown - a favorite.

Sheldon Whitehouse, too.

[opihimoimoi]

3. KnR :o) The GOPer Baggers are Hateful People...They use DIVISION as a social tool...

They are Social Bullies....

[glowing]

4. The teabagging old white people are ganging up on Brown.

[DonCoquixote]

5. Brown is

Everything they say St. Dennis is, and he does it in the SENATE, which is akin to making Ice Cream in a Furnace. Why he gets no love, I dunno.

[necso]

6. Give those prevaricating cons hell, Senator.

That is, tell 'em the truth; and continue to fight for the American people.

(Myths of free trade, indeed.)

[Cal33]

7. If the right-wingers win, they'd self-destruct anyway. They're

doing their best to destroy the middle class, aren't they? Who is doing most of the
productive work? The middle class! They're the goose that's laying the golden eggs.
And the right-wingers are trying to kill the goose. Ergo, no more golden eggs. If
this isn't self-destruct, what is?