Welcome to Glenn Beck's World: What If the Tea Partiers Ruled the Country?

[babylonsister]

Welcome to Glenn Beck's World: What If the Tea Partiers Ruled the Country?
Chip Ward

Imagine a land where white, patriarchal, religiously zealous, Tea Party-type patriots rule. It's called Utah, and what happens here should terrify you.

March 29, 2010 |

Photo Credit: dbking


What if the Tea Party ruled? Imagine a land, let’s call it Glennbeckistan, where white, patriarchal, religiously zealous, Tea Party-type patriots hold a super-majority in both houses of the legislature, sit in the governor’s mansion, and control most local governments. It’s a place so out of sync with the rest of the nation that states’ rights and even secession are always on the agenda. It’s a place where gun-ownership trumps all other rights, climate change is considered an insidious socialist conspiracy, and a miscarriage can be investigated as a potential crime. Welcome to Utah.

Our rightwing red-state legislature just finished its annual 2010 session. So-called message bills challenged the federal government’s right to govern federal lands, enforce gun controls, legalize abortion, and mandate health reform. In addition, Utah’s lawmakers cut the education budget, raised tuitions, and slashed services to the disabled. In fairness, state legislators across the nation, faced with disastrous drops in revenue, have likewise slashed social services and balanced budgets on the backs of the poor. In Utah, however, they also shelved pensions for public employees. That they could take such draconian action is instructive -- organized labor is weak here, unions being another manifestation of creeping socialism. Utah’s history of labor organizing, or grass roots and civil rights organizing for that matter, is anemic compared to most of America. This is the place, after all, where IWW radical Joe Hill was arrested and executed.

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[Submariner]

1. Following a former coke-headed alcoholic who is a conspiracy theorist

and who barely got out of high school, is obviously all it takes to stimulate their tiny reptilian brain stems and show them as the racist birther tea-baggers that they are.

Republican tea-baggers are too stoopid to rule a country, that's why we had to take all that away from them in 2008. And good riddens to them too.

[LoKnLoD]

3. Beck is a Mormon

That is all that matters to the Utahns.

[babylonsister]

5. Not exactly...

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201003190072

Mormon scholar: "Glenn Beck doesn't speak for the Mormons I know"

[get the red out]

2. Scary people

:scared:

[tanyev]

4. Erm...shouldn't the guy with the "We (heart)" sign be on the far left???

Unless they are using an obscure middle-to-left-to-right reading order I am not familiar with.

[Zoeisright]

8. They don't understand spelling and sentence construction.

That's just one of their problems.

[Gman2]

6. My company moved there, thank God they wer too scared of me to offer REAL package.

Soon after, those who protested Cheney speech, were blackballed from employment.

[JBoy]

7. Who's Glenn Webeck?

[nealmhughes]

9. Of course they raised tuition: only sinners like non-Mormons go to public schools.

Saints go to BYU, like Heavenly Father and the ghost of Joe Smith (pbuh) desire.

[AnArmyVeteran]

10. Even if you're not a Mormon, they can still get you when you die!

The Mormons have a ceremony where they can convert you after you die. I believe it has to be performed at their mother church in Utah. So if you think you are safe, think again. I wonder why the other religions haven't thought of this ingenious way to get you after you die?