Anger Fuels Tea Party Fire, Destroys the Ability to Think

[drakonyx]

In an interview with NewsMax.com, conservative commentator Glenn Beck says the tea party is in a fight with the Republican Party over who will oppose the Democrats, and it's a fight that only one of them can survive.

Beck may be right. He's rooting for the tea party forces, and it appears they may have the upper hand - if only slightly. A CNN/ORC International Poll out late last week showed that 49% of Republicans and voters who lean Republican support the tea party; the remaining 51% say they oppose the movement or have no feelings toward it one way or the other.

The question of how that second group breaks down is left unanswered in CNN's story, but it's a significant one. If most of them oppose the tea party movement, the Republicans are in for a knock-down-drag-out war. But if most of them have no opinion, the tea party has already won. The reason is simple: Tea party members are angry. Fuming. Irate. Pissed off. The CNN poll found that a full 50% of tea partiers were "very angry" about the state of the country, compared with 29% of other Republicans who felt this way.

Tea party members are angrier than most Republicans, which means they're more motivated ... and also less likely to think things through rationally. That's scary.

http://www.theprovocation.net/2011/09/anger-fuels-tea-party-fire-destroys.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Good. A dysfunctional family forming a circular firing squad.

What could be better?

[dkf]

2. Exactly why are they so pissed off?

They think a Democratic bent to government is responsible for their woes?

[Jackpine Radical]

4. That's exactly what they think.

Really. They hate Obama, think he's a Muslim fascist socialist who wants to take their savings and give their money to welfare cheats. The depression began when Obama took office & pushed through the stimulus package, thereby ruining the great economy Bush had left behind. I have no idea how they can keep that many mutually contradictory ideas in their minds at one time, but they seem to have every hate-filled little cognitive pustule walled off from every other HFLCP so as to keep them from reaching critical mass & exploding their heads.

[Crunchy Frog]

6. It's what they've been propagandized to think.

All of this ultimately comes from a huge, corporate funded, RW propaganda machine.

[Initech]

3. Never underestimate large groups of angry, stupid, stubborn people.

[Demeter]

5. I've Never Understood the Anger

Are the Tea Party hungry, homeless, without income? No. So what do they have to be angry about?

Apparently, they are angry at people who are impoverished, just because the poor exist, and the Tea Party considers poverty a personal choice and moral failing, not a social one. And they are angry at people who advocate for the poor, to get them the necessities of life.

They are NOT angry at the Obscenely Wealthy, who created the poverty.

[lovemydog]

7. well-said

I don't understand it either. I think deep down it's resentment that minorities have more voice and they're angry that white people like them aren't getting enough. But that's pure speculation.

[mikekohr]

8. Bingo, that's the face of the local Tea Partiers here