Someone help me out, what do teabaggers mean when they say they want to "take the country back"?

[ck4829]

Do they want to take us back to the days of energy task force, or the time when a lot of people unfortunately seemed to think that gays were 10 foot tall evil wizards with magical powers, or the time when people checked under their beds and in their closets for COMMUNISTS!!!, or the time when "witches" were burned at the stake, or the time when you had people on your farm and you weren't really obligated to pay them anything at all, or the time when you weren't free to sit where you wanted on the bus, or what?

This era is far from perfect, but you could easily say that we have a lot less fear and want than in the past.

Thanks, but no thanks, teabaggers. Maybe it's fun for you all to live in fear of Muslims, feminists, blacks, immigrants, gays, Latinos, liberals, atheists, people who know that trickle down economics is a scam, the poor, etc., but the rest of us want to live in the now, and I think November will reflect that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. "Take the country back" means:

"We hate it that we have a black President."

[XemaSab]

4. Like, no, but seriously

when is the white man going to get a fair shake in this country? :P

[City Lights]

12. That's it in a nutshell. nt

[azureblue]

32. It means

1- we messed it up when we had it, so we want to mess it up some more
2- we think government works like the return desk at Wal Mart - you can "take it back"
3- them colored got too uppity and we want to take the country back -- to the days of slavery
4- we don't know what to do with it even if we get it back.
5- we want to return to the days of yore that only existed on TV for white folks
6- a colored, educated, smart President? We don't want anybody smarter than us in the Oval Office
7- we saw the movie "Idiocracy" and that's the government we want
8- we didn't do anything when Bush wrecked the country, so we want to take the country back to those times.


Please add your own.

[ThatsMyBarack]

37. But...

They don't believe Bush even wrecked the country at all.

[muntrv]

2. Means "WAAAAAT PAAAAAR."

[lunatica]

3. They want to take it back to the good old days

[DJ13]

5. A return to regressive conservatism

Or getting the GOP back in power, same thing.

[msongs]

6. it's become a cliche after Howard Dean used it to strongest effect nt

[OneGrassRoot]

7. They feel a white, Christian sense of entitlement...

Obama took that away. That want that feeling (as false as it may be) back.

[IntravenousDemilo]

8. They want to take it back to 1890. n/m

[Tx4obama]

9. Back to the days of back-room abortions, no minority/women's rights - no voting rights n/t

[barbtries]

10. the answer to your question is

all of the above.

if people get out and vote in November, i am convinced that the dems will win. it's a big if unfortunately.

[Jade Fox]

11. It's a meaningless catch phrase....

rooted in a trumped up sense of having been victimized.

[tularetom]

13. The ones I know pretty much mean

Back to when you automatically got a better deal when it came to jobs, hiring etc., if you were a white man.

[krabigirl]

44. then they are idiots for wanting the GOP back in power. more jobs for other countries. nt

[tularetom]

46. I didn't say they were smart

But they are, well, direct.

I wouldn't want to be a prominent republican candidate when and if they finally figure out who's been screwing them over these many years.

[Swede]

14. They want a white President.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. You're right, my dear Swede...

It's their damn fault that they ran such a poor candidate!

:P

[MadMaddie]

15. Translated they don't like minorities of any kind to have equal

rights.

They want to go back to the days when they could spit on us,sick their dogs on us and blow up our black churches and not be held accountable.

Rachal Maddow is right, Beck and others like him feed on the story of if the Minorities and other non-right leaning people in America gain prosperity, education and advancement in life then Whites are losing something.

Sorry, this angers me because Sharpton had a march and barely got any coverage. The media is helping Beck and his cause.....

[brewens]

17. To African Americans it means, "we'd put y'all right back in them

cotton fields if we had our way!"

[hatrack]

18. They want to fire up the Wayback Machine and set the controls for Mayfield

Once they've had a goblet of milk straight from June Cleaver's refrigerator, they can relax and revel in the timeless glory of an America that never was (and that they never inhabited).

If that technology turns out to be unavailable, they'll settle for hating gays, atheists, liberals and the first black president . . .

[KG]

19. white male protestant hegemony

[RandomThoughts]

20. Interesting comment

You can learn from anything. What does this clip say? Then again, why believe it, it is just a movie.

Dream Warrior.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtiaYVyF_18


Anyone get what can be learned from that clip...


(hint you have to drop the nouns, and see that the 'freddy thing' apologizes in that clip, notice also how 'freddy thing' goes for the heart.)


Should add this clip also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUqgDzUk80k


So what is our TV shows teaching kids now adays anyways?


Then there is Alice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO1zRnSccQ0

[Blue Meany]

21. They want to be in control...what else could it mean?

They would like to force everyone to be like them, leave the country, or be marginalized.

Personally, I think the need to control others in order to feel good yourself is a sign of mental illness, usually accompanied by a lack of self-control.

[Marr]

22. It's little more than a marketing slogan.

For some it means, 'back to having the Republicans back in charge', for others it means, 'back to having a white man in charge', and for some (most, I suspect) it's nothing more than an aggressive noise that makes them feel like they're connected to something respectable and powerful.

[Golden Raisin]

23. Code for get that N-Word and his

family out of the Oval Office. Sadly, I have few doubts they many of them would have serious issues with rounding up Moslems, Jews, Hispanics, Gays, Blacks, Browns, Asians, you-fill-in-the-ethnicity-or-differing-religion --- and either deporting or incarcerating them in camps. They're trapped in and longing for some fantasized Norman Rockwell-esque vision of 1950s America which never really existed, but makes them feel secure and at the top of the social/racial/jobs heap.

[toddwv]

24. They don't just want to take the country back...

they want to take it way, way back. (not mine, attributable to some other poster a few weeks ago).

[corkhead]

25. Everyone has it all wrong. They are taking it back for him....

[activa8tr]

28. The native Americans were very generous to those Europeans, gave them

food, seed corn, taught them how to grow and harvest in harsh New England weather.

But then most of them died in wars or when Europeans gave them alcohol and guns, and some illnesses they hadn't been exposed to.

Native Americans would probably do a better job than Republicans these days, at running the nation and taking care of all people.

[RC]

30. Beat me to it.

Take it back from whom?

[Odin2005]

26. It means "We hate non-Whites"

[Lil Missy]

27. It means we want a Republican President. Oh, and a White one.

[OHdem10]

29. This started with election of Obama, a black president. The very

first pictures (long before the Tea Party developed)
of some very unhappy voters in Arkansas actually crying
and screaming --we want our country back.

While most of the country has moved forward since the
Civil Rights era, there a pockets here and there across
the country who could not bring themselves to believe
A BLACK MAN could be elected president.

Very interesting the "I want my country backers turned
up in the TeaParty.

[pinboy3niner]

31. They mean: Implement the StormFront agenda

It's fear of change, of diversity, of multiculturalism that motivates some to glom onto causes for the preservation of white power and privilege.

But, according to some, we're not allowed to call it bigotry. What do you think of THAT?

[baldguy]

33. Obviously, it means they want to go backwards.

[Swamp Rat]

34. It never belonged to them exclusively and never will, and it will never 'go back'

to whatever false construct no matter how hard they fantasize and threaten Americans with their '2nd Amendment right'. :)

[valerief]

35. They have no clue. They say what Fox tells them to say. It's like being at a football game to them.

They cheer what they're told to.

[AndyA]

36. Take the country back = only White men in the White House. n/m

[TygrBright]

38. They want to take us back to the days of the Founding of the Republic.

You know, back when an individual of African descent was legally 3/5 of a human being, could be owned like chattel, and was certainly not entitled to vote.

Back when wimmin were legally the property of their fathers or husbands and couldn't vote either.

Back when if you massacred a few hundred Native Americans and stole their land you were publicly applauded for it...


you know... THE GOOD OLD DAYS! When Freedom rang and all that flapdoodle.


helpfully,
Bright

[w8liftinglady]

39. sigh..do you really want to know? editorials from my local paper

http://www.elliscountypress.com/editorials/9822-Simply-Speaking%3A-%E2%80%98A-Rare-Diamond%E2%80%99.html

Make no mistake, we are in a full scale war, not with bullets or bombs (yet), not of invading Redcoats (1773), nor of invading Bluecoats (1861), but now it is a war between the Red and the Blue (states, counties, cities, right down to local precincts).

http://www.elliscountypress.com/editorials/9820-does-the-new-financial-reform-law-protect-you.html

This is just another example of why I personally have never been able to trust Democrats. They always seem to put party and power before any concern about what’s best for the country and the people. I’ve lived a long time and things haven’t changed much since the 1960s. As long as they have the power, it won’t either.

Stay tuned for more sad developments in the on-going saga of Obama’s takeover and remake of our republic.


http://www.elliscountypress.com/editorials/4094-desperate-measures.html

They are using their "nuclear weapon" - calling the Tea Party a "racist movement." Nothing could be further from the truth. Of course, Democrats have stooped to this level before when they used the "nuclear bomb" daisy ad against Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964.

I have been to a number of tea party events, and have seen nothing that could be called racist. Of course, socialists don’t need evidence, they just need emotion. So what if some signs showed Obama as the Joker or comparing him to Hitler. Bush was shown in the same unflattering light. Do we not still have free speech?


http://www.elliscountypress.com/editorials/4093-the-naacp.html

Oh yeah; the NAACP, during its recent national convention at St. Louis, in addition to hanging onto the every utterance of Michelle Obama, I’m sure, also found the time to denigrate, of all things, the Tea Party, or the Tea Party Movement, or a sign somebody once saw at a Tea Party gathering (which they interpreted as) denigrating Colored People in some way. Something like that.

The burr under the NAACP saddle, as I see it is they (NAACP people) think the Tea Party is all about Obama. Guilty conscience? Or, are Coloreds exempt from criticism?



ya want more?

[ejpoeta]

40. they want to go back to the good old days when old white men made all the rules

and women knew their place and brown people and colored people knew their place too. the good old days. though it doesn't sound all that great to me.

[Skittles]

41. back to when only white men were president

[political_Dem]

42. Come on. When "they" want to take their country back, it means going back to the fifties.

They want women and people of color (most notably Black folks) on their hands and knees serving the White Master.

They get all disturbed when some "uppity" minority has some aspirations such as being POTUS.

Why, that's like fighting words to them.

They declared war against all disenfranchised groups when Mr. Obama came into office.

[krabigirl]

43. They want to take us back to the 1950s. Oh, and kick out everyone else who disagrees.

lastly, they just want the Republicans back in power.

[AnArmyVeteran]

45. Using 2nd Amendment remedies using force (killing people)

[Jade Fox]

47. Here is an interesting take on your question.....

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_08/025426.php

"The Civil War, Southerners say, was not about slavery; it was about states' rights. True, but the states' right that they felt was threatened was the right to own slaves.

In the same way, I think, this is about freedom--not any old freedom, like religion or speech. Not those freedoms. What exactly is that freedom that they feel is threatened?

My take is that this country is committed to both freedom and equality, and those twin commitments are not only not exactly compatible but often downright contradictory. So, our history, in a sense, has been a balancing act between the two. The tea partiers, IMO, sense that their freedom to be the superior majority is endangered. With the election of a black president, the twig has been bent way too far in the direction of equality for their comfort. So they sense their freedom is endangered. True, and it is precisely the freedom to comfortably, without challenge, be the majority in power and act accordingly.

They want their country back. And they feel limited, bound, in ways that they were not when they were in the majority. That's why, IMO, they felt no threat from Bush. Bush circumscribed American freedom in all kinds of ways, but not in a way that seemed to elevate minorities to equality. That's why they had no problem with Bush. That's the freedom they want back."
Posted by: Raenelle on August 28, 2010 at 7:30 PM | PERMALINK

The above is a response to the article at the link.

[The Backlash Cometh]

48. It means they want to protect their networks that override the law.

Wake up people. We live in a two tiered community. They're fucking bullies because you won't open your eyes and see how they're getting away with so much worse than you can imagine.