Tea baggers are proud of themselves.

[kimmerspixelated]

They think they are standing up for their rights in a patriotic tradition like Jefferson, etc. without really knowing much about revolution, about not really knowing anything about...anything.

Remember how we felt in 2000, and 2004? Well, they think the same kind of thing happened to their side without the benefit of facts. They just know they feel fucked in some way, and they think that by using a tea party prop, they are somehow associated with a revolution, with patriotism.

They need to hold onto something, and apparently it has nothing to do with brain power, or pesky facts. They've got their stupid misspelled signs and their guns and they think they've got IT!

Ignorance really hurts.

[justinsb]

1. They have been fucked in some way though

They've been fucked by the last 3 decades of Republican policies and 'Family Values" which have crippled the education system, national infrastructure (and economic potential and job growth along with it) and health care.

They've also been fucked by a national media that is long on speculation and opinion and short on facts.

If they were better educated, healthier and better off economically they would be less fucked (of course they also wouldn't be conservative.)

[DailyGrind51]

2. The "have little" pitted against the "have less", so that the "haves" and "have mores" can

"have it all".

[Jack Rabbit]

5. I've been saying that here for years

Please click here.

[MindandSoul]

7. And they will continue to be "f" by Republican'ts who are USING them!

[chollybocker]

3. Obama said it way back on the campaign trail, many moons ago:

"It's like they're proud of their ignorance."

Then Sarah made it fashionable again to be dumb as a bag of rocks.

[ginnyinWI]

4. to admit to themselves that Bush did it would be too much

cognitive dissonance. So they accept a false line that the Democrats somehow did it. Then their world remains intact and Republican principles always work for good.

Facts be damned.

[WillyT]

6. Ironic That These Idiots Would Have Sided With King George III In The Late 1700's

Tea Partiers my ass!!!

:puke:

[applegrove]

8. Yup. You would think that being religious would give them the emotional connection

they needed. But no. They had to go out and form teabagger groups to get that sense they had a place to share their anger. I wonder if the rich people who have helped create religion as the harbor for their little peons (using an author Tim LaHaye for example) are worried now that the teabaggers have found shelter elsewhere. If you think about it using religion to control people was a very archaic way of controlling people what with the internet and all.

[Enthusiast]

9. "Ignorance really hurts."

This is so true. But Tea party ignorance is hurting all America not just tea partiers.

[kimmerspixelated]

11. Excellent point!

It's like living with someone who is depressed all the time, it is hard to not be affected.

[opihimoimoi]

10. Apparently, they are unhappy campers who wish to share their misery by pointing to others