RE: Imagine A Black Tea Party
May 20, 2011 at 11:23 am
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2011 at 11:25 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(May 20, 2011 at 11:02 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: "Unless"?
Sorry, I'm having trouble imagining an alternative world.
An alternative world where tea partiers weren't funded by people with money who backed republican positions and grossly inflated their influence on politics? Nevermind the crazy ones who only became worried about the country's debt after Obama was elected and not after Bush's repeated tax cuts for the wealthy, his unpaid-for pharma-givaway, his useless and pointless wars for oil, deregulation of the oil industry (among others), his neutering of what remained of the regulatory body that regulates the oil industry, and so many more failures.
No, the tea party congragated with mysterious wealthy donors to bus around the country in opposition to an otherwise popular healthcare bill because giving healthcare away as a right to all US citizens is such a heinous crime but none of the other things listed above warrented a response.
Reality is a bitch sometimes.
There might be legitimate small-government tea-party people out there, but the vast majority of them only came to be because they supported republican positions and they went with FOX's narrative against healthcare.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
