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It's not just the teabaggers. To an even greater extent, it's the crackpot religious right that's driving the GOP always deeper into the ditch. It will be great fun watching the GOP either shrink into a southern and rural midwest regional party or somehow regain a few brain cells and rise like a phoenix from the ashes of their self-inflicted stupidity.
The Tea Party is the crackpot religious right.
12-21-2012, 03:44 PM
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The Tea Party is the crackpot religious right.
Basically yes. It's just the classic religious right with an extra dose of stunning economic stupidity on top.
It's like they're engaged in some contest to see who can be the most extreme and possess the least factual knowledge. The whole thing is a celebration of stupidity and ignorance.
I am not a Tea Party supporter nor a member for sure, but obviously, it you think the group is a right wing, religious leaning organization you have never followed anything about them or bothered to do any research..Religion has nothing to do with what they believe in or what they are fighting for.
I know of several Tea Party supporters and only one couple could be tied into religion in anyway. In fact some of the others don't even belong to a church or support organized religion.
The whole thing is a celebration of stupidity and ignorance.
Correct. Much like rural America, in general. That county I posted a link to earlier-with just 1 in 16 adults having a college degree in 2012, celebrates high school linebackers, and the few kids who decide to go on to college are openly ridiculed.
Than the adults whine about "dem illegals takin our jobs". It didn't happen, but could of, as working limbs were the sole employment asset the residents had. High school dropout rates exceeded the state and national average, by a wide margin!
There are 4 counties very similar in these demographics nearby; we had a facility in one of them. We needed good, cheap labor, really nothing more than warm bodies with working limbs. It worked out well; we could pay $9-$10 an hour and keep them as long as we wanted, the only competition for the labor force that was planned, did not get executed. CCA was going to put up a prison, they are a private corp who runs government jails. ALL of our management we purposely avoided this five county area in hiring.
12-22-2012, 09:54 PM
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I am not a Tea Party supporter nor a member for sure, but obviously, it you think the group is a right wing, religious leaning organization you have never followed anything about them or bothered to do any research..Religion has nothing to do with what they believe in or what they are fighting for.
I would invite you to look at the nutball social crap the Tea Partiers pushed immediately upon getting elected. And the nutball social crap they ran on.
I realize you live in an alternate reality where facts don't penetrate, but it's apparent to everyone who makes even the slightest effort to be informed that the Tea Party has morphed into little more than a new name for the same old theocratic nonsense.
I would invite you to look at the nutball social crap the Tea Partiers pushed immediately upon getting elected. And the nutball social crap they ran on.
I realize you live in an alternate reality where facts don't penetrate, but it's apparent to everyone who makes even the slightest effort to be informed that the Tea Party has morphed into little more than a new name for the same old theocratic nonsense.
Yes, the TP is just another incarnation of the far right social conservatives that have been driving us crazy for decades. Any claim that they are truly all about fiscal competence is proven laughable by the fact that most of these people also strongly support Bush's wars AND tax cuts. No true fiscal conservative would have done that. They are right wing zealots parroting the latest rightwing talking points.
The Tea Party, they contend, is made up of well-off white Republicans fiercely protective of their social security and Medicare benefits and fiercely against social spending on “undeserving” younger people and immigrants; they are canny about politics but misinformed about public policy, and unalterably opposed to the very concept of a black president . While the movement is genuinely grass-roots, the authors argue, it is swayed by conservative media and “highly ideological right-wing billionaires,” the result is a fragile coalition—initiatives to cut their entitlements don’t sit well with Tea Partiers—that is nonetheless shoving the Republican party into a corner of unpopular extremism.
The funny thing is, the tea party crowd are the first to yell cut the entitlements......but not mine. So, in reality, the tea party is pro New Deal, as are most Americans. If you like Social Security, if you like Medicare, you are part of New Deal America, which is what this country is. The current Democrats and Republicans would love to take us back to pre-New Deal America. No thanks.
The funny thing is, the tea party crowd are the first to yell cut the entitlements......but not mine. So, in reality, the tea party is pro New Deal, as are most Americans. If you like Social Security, if you like Medicare, you are part of New Deal America, which is what this country is. The current Democrats and Republicans would love to take us back to pre-New Deal America. No thanks.
just one point -- current Democrats do not want to take us back to pre-New Deal America. They are the only ones standing in the way of the regressives.
just one point -- current Democrats do not want to take us back to pre-New Deal America. They are the only ones standing in the way of the regressives.
Bull. The Democrats are a completely useless party that use social wedge issues to get the vote out. When it comes time to deliver, they fail, time and time again. The Democrats like to take things slow to wreck the train. The Republicans are full speed ahead, that's the only difference.
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