Racism Is Part And Parcel Of The Teabagger Movement

[DemocratSinceBirth]

The notion that we can find common ground with them as advocated by Ralph Nader and Noam Chomsky reminds me of the old saw that some ideas are so bizarre only an intellectual can believe them.

These antebellum clowns can't get their arms around the fact a person of color is president.

[baldguy]

1. Not news.

This is from a year ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAAHMDpk7Ik

[miscsoc]

2. Anyone who doubts the racism at the core of the movement

just needs to do a bit of research, spend half an hour googling around the places where the activists congregate online and read what they say. Liberals and leftists need to stop deluding themselves into thinking that these people, deep down, must be motivated by basically decent motives. A few of them might be, but the "tea party" movement is largely - yes - a movement of evil. I'm not saying that they are iredeemable, any more than the majority of Germans who supported the Nazis, or the majority of southern whites who approved of lynching. But the motivating passions - greed, ethnic hatred, sadism - are obvious. Those are evil things, aren't they?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. I Would Like To Think It Was Minorities In Both Case But Sizeable Ones

It reminds me of what some sage said about the American Revolution.

-one third supported the Patriots

-one third supported the British

-and the other third was waiting to get on the side that was winning

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[MineralMan]

6. Actually, I think you use the word ill-advisedly.

You needn't spell it out. You have taken bad advice.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. This may prove to be interesting.

:popcorn: