The Very Angry Tea Party

The Very Angry Tea Party
By J.M. BERNSTEIN


http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/the-very-angry-tea-party/?ref=opinion



Sometimes it is hard to know where politics ends and metaphysics begins: when, that is, the stakes of a political dispute concern not simply a clash of competing ideas and values but a clash about what is real and what is not, what can be said to exist on its own and what owes its existence to an other.

The seething anger that seems to be an indigenous aspect of the Tea Party movement arises, I think, at the very place where politics and metaphysics meet, where metaphysical sentiment becomes political belief. More than their political ideas, it is the anger of Tea Party members that is already reshaping our political landscape. As Jeff Zeleny reported last Monday in The Times, the vast majority of House Democrats are now avoiding holding town-hall-style forums — just as you might sidestep an enraged, jilted lover on a subway platform — out of fear of confronting the incubus of Tea Party rage that routed last summer’s meetings. This fear-driven avoidance is, Zeleny stated, bringing the time-honored tradition of the political meeting to the brink of extinction.



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It would be comforting if a clear political diagnosis of the Tea Party movement were available — if we knew precisely what political events had inspired the fierce anger that pervades its meetings and rallies, what policy proposals its backers advocate, and, most obviously, what political ideals and values are orienting its members.

Of course, some things can be said, and have been said by commentators, under each of these headings. The bailout of Wall Street, the provision of government assistance to homeowners who cannot afford to pay their mortgages, the pursuit of health care reform and, as a cumulative sign of untoward government expansion, the mounting budget deficit are all routinely cited as precipitating events. I leave aside the election of a — “foreign-born” — African-American to the presidency.

When it comes to the Tea Party’s concrete policy proposals, things get fuzzier and more contradictory:

keep the government out of health care, but leave Medicare alone;

balance the budget, but don’t raise taxes;

let individuals take care of themselves, but leave Social Security alone;

and, of course, the paradoxical demand not to support Wall Street, to let the hard-working producers of wealth get on with it without regulation and government stimulus, but also to make sure the banks can lend to small businesses and responsible homeowners in a stable but growing economy.


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they thrive on blame of others when it is in fact their fault.

What they fail to grasp is they aren't living in reality.
Things may have to get much worse before they start to realize that they are part the problem with America and in no way are they enriching anyones lives, oh except the rich, fat coporations and wall street.

A much more dangerous place..for the rest of us.

It's where the KKK and Nazi minds lived, and it generates hell-on-earth the more it is allowed to dominate (which it has for almost all of human history, with brief respites).

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and keeping their medicare and wars but not pay taxes is truly a non thinking, immature mindset.

Most tea baggers are not intelligent enough to spell correctly, much less think their way through balancing the budget. What you are seeing are the reality challenged being led by Right Wing Authoritarianism pounded out daily through media designed to hook them into not thinking.

recognize is their 'beloved' was their RW political beliefs and that is what jilted them.