These "Tea Party" activists are simpletons: they are always bringing up the "founding fathers" and the Constitution - as if any of them ever read the Constitution, much less understand its provisions for the foundation of our government. "We want our country back!" they cry. It’s laughable. They are like the evangelical Christians that misquote the gospels and ask, insipidly: "What would Jesus do?" They are stooges and shills for those who would use them to their own cross-purposes - those who would undermine the very foundations of our democratic institutions. (There are some that believe they have the right to take up arms against their lawfully constituted government!) They are not patriots, they are not loyal citizens, they are subversives.
I find it difficult to respect anyone who feels obliged to use insults in political discussions. There are millions of Tea Party supporters, and to refer to all of them as "simpletons" is patently ridiculous. I know some of them, and I can assure you they are not "simpletons". I can also assure you that your condescending "as if any of them ever read the Constitution" is also ridiculous. As a whole, they are probably better informed about the way government works than the general populace.
You, however, are a perfect example of why politics no longer works well in this country. What makes us great is our diversity, our ability to get along, to compromise. Tea Party members are ordinary Americans, expressing their right (guaranteed by the same Constitution they've "never read", btw) to free speech. I have to wonder who doesn't understand the Constitution when they refer to citizens peacefully expressing free speech as "subversives".
Unsubstantiated accusations are worth diddle. Provide me with any quote from or a video of any Tea Party organization calling for taking up arms against the government.
You, however, are a perfect example of why politics no longer works well in this country. What makes us great is our diversity, our ability to get along, to compromise. Tea Party members are ordinary Americans, expressing their right (guaranteed by the same Constitution they've "never read", btw) to free speech. I have to wonder who doesn't understand the Constitution when they refer to citizens peacefully expressing free speech as "subversives".
Unsubstantiated accusations are worth diddle. Provide me with any quote from or a video of any Tea Party organization calling for taking up arms against the government.
Here is a man who knows the Constitution, one who carries a copy with him, and is second in line for the highest office in the land under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (Public Law 80-199).
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1109/Boehner_mixes_up_Constitution_and_Declaration.html
The so-called "Tea Party" activists are just another lunatic fringe group that the Republican party sees as a political liability but cannot disavow; which, ironically, are much like the factions that the Democratic party sought to appease in the face of Republican unity in the past. The tables have turned for the GOP, and not for the better.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1109/Boehner_mixes_up_Constitution_and_Declaration.html
The so-called "Tea Party" activists are just another lunatic fringe group that the Republican party sees as a political liability but cannot disavow; which, ironically, are much like the factions that the Democratic party sought to appease in the face of Republican unity in the past. The tables have turned for the GOP, and not for the better.
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We put them in power, we keep them in power, so ultimately we are to blame. That's why we should celebrate, not belittle, groups like the Tea Party or the Occupy group. We don't have to agree with them, but they represent democracy at its best (yes, Nemo, I know this is a Republic).
Higgins has enough problems of his own at home and doesn't need to be meddling in ours.
Higgins has enough problems of his own at home and doesn't need to be meddling in ours.
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor - he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation - he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city - he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared...."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 42 B.C.E.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 42 B.C.E.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ~John F. Kennedy
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky
“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.” Winston Churchill
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky
“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.” Winston Churchill
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