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The teapartiers are charging forth to put out a fire with a tank full of gasoline.

Here’s an interesting read that explains the difference between the populism of the 19th vs 21st centuries. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-08/the-tea-partiers-phony-populism/

Personally, I think the difference in the names says it all. The “Populist Party” of the 19th century derived its name from the word “Populace” meaning “The Common People: The masses.” It sought to return power to the people and wrest control away from monyied interests.

The name “Tea Party” connotes something altogether different. It smacks of a romanticism and a longing to feel like “Americans” again. It clings to a revolutionary identity, often citing nebulous terms like “tyranny” without a clear definition while it confuses democracy, capitalism, socialism, dictatorship, and communism and corporatism. (Only in the tea party world does a healthcare plan that seeks to leverage private sector insurance get labled a “socialist takeover and the end of democracy.”)

But what the name “Tea Party” really communicates is that people want to be proud of their country and government again. And that very earnest sentiment is being led in a direction by people like Tancredo and Palin (who make their livings off of turning Americans against one another) that will prove fatal to the underlying premise of the populist sentiment that’s driving it. As Tancredo and his standing-O just proved, its a populist movement that has turned against its own people.

After all, if we were to act on Tancredo’s words literally, deaf and mute people wouldn’t be allowed to vote because they can’t speak English. Or are we going to limit the restriction to the children of immigrants that were born in this country as citizens but grew up speaking only Spanish? Perhaps those with a French-creole/cajun dialect could qualify?

It’s a self-defeating movement and will result in the utter destruction of legislative independence and integrity that will only increase the distrust of our democratic institutions instead of mitigating it.

Read the article. Its not long but it is worth it.

TEA PARTY GETS EVEN LESS INVITING

If Bush3 hasn’t finished his task of destroying &
enslaving America by 2012, the republiCON platform
based on bigotry & hate will definitely fly,
especially
with a resurgence of the various while power
movements.
If this strategy proves to be effective, then they
can add the old standard scapegoat, the Zionists.
Between now & then, the fascists running the world
will have starved to death over 3 billion people
world wide & unemployment in the U.S. could be close
to 20%, & an anti-immigrant policy will have popular
appeal.

hello. i appreciate the fascist hysteria. they march, they shout, they bully and intimidate everyone with lies and absurdities. they infiltrate from Venezuela and other external hiding places. unfortunately for them, they can not understand the American spirit. there are a rabble of protesting crowds of angry Americans, whom no longer tolerate getting along with destructive policies; nor dehumanizing ideologies. there is a revolution of political dissatisfaction rising in public force against fascists, communists, and Bolsheviks: whom have been allowed too much freedom in America. if you need to fight for the bad guys, the American people always win: and you will be flushed with the excrement.

Tea Party? Sarah Palin? What is wrong with America?

Palin sez she’ll “challenge” Obama in 2012. She’ll serve two-thirds of her administration before quitting to land a five million dollar book deal and then declare herself Il Duce.

A Democratically controlled Congress can’t pass a health care reform bill because too many of them fit into the pockets of corporate lobbyists.

The Party of No (GOP) mimes the talking points of Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck, while Fox Infotainment & Shock n’ Awe spews corporate propaganda and the Tea Party fools take it for “fact.”

And since nobody in America reads or pays attention to history, it’s repeating itself again. Can you say “1932”?

Welcome to the rise of American Fascism.

Hammond Eggs makes a very good comparison between the Tea Party and Germany in the 1930’s.  The only thing that’s missing is rampant inflation and that’s coming.  Inflation is the elephant hiding in the closet.  Once inflation hits, then a scapegoat is needed——I wonder which group is available——wait a minute you don’t think….

Progressives are at loss because the party they’ve been supporting has
been coopted. In 2008, progressives ran as fast and as hard as they could
tp catch the fly ball and win the game. What they’ve realized in the
democratic party is that instaed of catching the ball and ending the game,
they hit a tree head on and knocked themselves senseless and it is only
natural to chase the next one with bit more caution in their steps.

Its the illusion of american democracy that nailed them. With obama and
the rest of the dems, they believed their democracy, was still responsive to
the people. Without confidence in that system, there is little incentive to
use that system as means to achieve change.

I believe this exactly what their opponents were hoping. If we look at the
events of the last decade, not as a slew of incompetent decisions to a string
of unrelated bad luck events, but instaed as the culmination of a protracted
30 year campaign to achieve a seachange in american politics, it begins to
make sense. The only way to have a truly free market is if the people stop
believing in the one tool they’ve relied on to keep the market in check:
their democratically elected government.

We should therefore begin to understand what was truly being
communicated years ago rove and cheney who each gave us a rare glimpse
of the long term political strategy. First, we had cheney tell us that “deficits
don’t matter” followed by rove’s declaration of a “permanent republican
majority.” What came next was a series of seemingly inept decisions by the
bush administration amid the daily distractions of the media machine that
ultimately led to this day: a government mired in debt and unable to
respond to the needs of the population. Rove was not called “the architect”
for nothing. 

There is a reason the supreme court plucked citizens united out of
obscurity. There is a reason the bush administration seemingly to
abandoned conservative doctrine of fiscal discipline, anti-nation building,
and anti-entitlement spending. Just as there is a reason the seeds of hate
are purposefully being sown right now. All of this was intentional.

Corporate control of a nation’s government is only part of the problem of a
creeping fascism, realistically speaking, a fascistic kind of thinking, which is a
step below actual fascism.  One has to know exactly which rung of the ladder
one is on to take the next step without slipping and falling into an abysmal
abyss of unproductive reactive ranting.  In a democracy corporations only have
control to the degree the public allows them to.  But this is not a simple
permission.  The public is ignorant of the forces at work out of their direct
observation.  Congress is not salted with conservatives and liberals, the
downright grim fact of division is Senate 41 Republicans (41%), 59 Democrats
(57 + 2 Independents for 59%); in the House of Representatives 178 (40.9%)
Republicans, 257 Democrats (59.1%).  All of these politicians represent all 50
sovereign states.  The next fact that the current Supreme Court is weighted not
only conservative but radically conservative is detrimental to popular consent. 
The only reason the populace is deceived is because of a couple of things,
apathy is a huge factor and the inability to take charge of their own lives due to
ignorance or the excessive capitulation to be taken care of by others. 

Reactive thinking is unfruitful and exhibits only desperation.  It is
counterproductive.  Assimilation, or learning how to work within a certain
commonwealth, is the only way to effect permanent change that reflects the
desired welfare of the community.  Suggestion: rather than rant, put the
thinking caps on to see realistically how to counteract the corrupting
influences. 

For instance, the recent Tea Party convention to which the demagogue Sarah
Palin screeched her Love of America drivel was not protested by one Democrat! 
Why wasn’t there a protest march rallying around the entire convention center? 
That would have taken the attention of the media and watered down the
glamor that was bestowed on the malevolent and provocative event.  It is pure
bull shit to sit and rave against perceived enemies or opponents without DOING
anything to counteract their efforts.  The Democrats don’t have the creative
mind to live up to their political ideals to represent the public.  But they are the
popular party and need to be badgered to do their duty.  If they are in the
pockets of corporations, then the people have to take them out of those
pockets and replace by those who are not.

We the populace must not make the mistake of thinking the Right-Wing EXTREMISTS, the Republicans, are stupid, and that if we can only get some smarter politicians on the Right, government will be better for the populace.  Republican Conservative Right-Wing EXTREMIST stupidity is a strategy to fool the stupid populace, while they eat away at the populace.

President Obama and none of the Nearly Nobles are the Right-Wing Conservative EXTREMIST corporate aristocracy that through the media, the Supreme Court, and a corrupted democratic side of Congress continually chew away at the populace of the United States until the majority of the populace either die or get eaten.

Voting Republicans into office is the problem, not the solution.

“Teabaggers…less inviting” to whom?  Money-centered government and culture in this country have been inviting ignorance and naive mythical notions about conquest and supremacy for years and years. The drive toward American supremacy is as old as the country itself.  In a sense we were born dreaming—free land to steal, lots of water, sky, scenery, plenty of room for the most selfish private enterprises. 
  Now we have butted our collective noses against a wall.  Oops!  There isn’t any more!  We have to share?  Oh, my God!  Her skin is a different color, he doesn’t speak English! They are dirty, poor or incompetent!  What shall I do to be saved?
  The entire scene—if you hold the picture sidewise and look at it out of the corner of your eye—is absolutely disgusting.  And yet we can’t seem to get enough sane people together to set things right!  And I don’t mean punch a few people out, or call in the Marines or start a parade. But jeez, Looeez!  If the Teabaggers can get their act together, .....makes you wonder.

America’s always getting better, but we’ve always had morons. These are
just another group of morons. Don’t worry about Tea-baggers; there are
bigger things to worry about correcting right now.

Corporate control of a nation’s government is the long and the short of fascism.  The Supreme Court is in the process of putting corporations into supreme control of the United States government against the will of the nation’s populace, and I expect Congress is salted enough with conservatives on the democratic liberal side that nothing beneficial can be accomplished to put down the Supreme Court’s plans for a corporate takeover of our government, especially with a large percentage of the populace deceived into thinking they are conservative Republicans.

the opening speech at the first national Tea Party Convention in Nashville suggests something more sinister at the root of the movement.

It’s called Fascism.  This includes even death camps and a violent crusade against much of the rest of the world, much more so than what is taking place right now.  The Tea Baggers are part of the brown shirt movement inside the Republican party.  The brown shirts are epitomized by Glenn Beck, the Horst Wessel of Fox News.  Should these people ever come to power in the United States, this place will become Nazi Germany with the world’s largest arsenal of hydrogen bombs.