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Tea Partiers React With Fury To World They Can’t Control
Tea Partiers React With Fury To World They Cant Control
When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, many pundits and political observers were eager to expunge the nations brutal and long-running history of stark racial oppression. They spoke of a post-racial society freed from the divisions of tribe, healed of the deep wounds that ached and bled along the color line for centuries.
Even those who were less sanguine about the disappearance of racism myself included believed that the election of the nations first black president signaled a new era of greater racial harmony and understanding. Surely, a nation ready to be led by a black man was ready to let go many of its oldest and ugliest prejudices.
But that was a very naive notion. It turns out that Obamas election has, instead, provoked a new civil war, a last battle cry of secession by a group of voters who want no part of a country led by a black man, no place in a world they dont rule, no home in a society where they are simply one more minority group. Call those folks Tea Partiers.
The ultraconservatives who have taken over the Republican Party are motivated by many things antipathy toward the federal government, conservative religious beliefs and a traditional Republican suspicion of taxes, among them. But the most powerful force animating their fight is a deep-seated racial antagonism.
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Tea Partiers React With Fury To World They Can’t Control (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Oct 2013
OP
Maybe the TP should elect a minority candidate that reflects their politics.
Old and In the Way
Oct 2013
#1
You mean Palin, right? She was perfect in 2008. It was 1968 all over again for me.
freshwest
Oct 2013
#5
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)1. Maybe the TP should elect a minority candidate that reflects their politics.
hahahahahahahahahahahahhaaha.
Cha
(297,780 posts)2. Yes, maybe the teabaggers should get a nominee from the
KKK rally they had today.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)5. You mean Palin, right? She was perfect in 2008. It was 1968 all over again for me.
Every outdoor rally had that same atmosphere. After a couple of them, I coudn't even watch it to see what the 'issues' were.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)4. They're gonna blow up the world this Thursday.
For "freedom."