(August 20, 2010 at 10:11 am)Tiberius Wrote:(August 20, 2010 at 3:33 am)padraic Wrote: A teabagger is a Libertarian of dimished mental acuity. EG they vote for Sarah Palin.(?)I think the problem is painting every single one of them with the same brush. Not all the "teabaggers" are Libertarians; not all of them are stupid; not all of them vote for Sarah Palin; not all of them (in fact a low number) are racists.
Where I do side with the tea party is their platform of lower taxes, and smaller government. I'd attend the tea party rallies in the UK if they weren't so closely connected with UKIP, who I reject because of their anti-islam stance on almost anything.
Sorry Adrian,I should have used a smiley.I was taking the piss. I DO understand teabaggers are only a flavour of conservative. Some of them seem to be ignorant and rather stupid and/or racist bigots.So are some atheists and a lot of literalist theists.
In my opinion racism is caused mainly by xenophobia and is probably hardwired to some degree.. Although some fear of outsiders may be involuntary,hateful speech and behaviour are within our control.
My attitude to taxes is pure Keynes.He said that if you want a society with a high standard of living, you need full employment,high wages and high taxes. I've never had a problem with that, even when I was paying 46 cents in the dollar tax.
A pluralist, I also think social infrastructure should be owned and controlled by the State,at a profit if possible.That was the case here until a few years ago when conservative governments privatised it all..
