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I have listened to the TEA PARTY AKA Teabaggers and I am not favorably impressed. They yell and scream about government spending and taxation but they do not offer alternatives to either the spending that mostly benefits them or who to tax instead of borrow from to run even their diminished government.
They are just a front for more "supply side" economics that have nearly bankrupted our country. At best they are fools and at worst they are more of the same Republican self serving trash.
Government spending and taxation are legitimate concerns, though, right? The solutions to the problems may not sit well with you, but that's what the conversation needs to be about. The solutions. The tea partiers are initiating a conversation. There will be lots of disagreement involved, raised voices, even anger. Because people get emotional about things they care about. But they care. And you care. And that's how all solutions start.
They can demand respect some time AFTER they begin to show it.
Or they might begin to show it after they start receiving some. It's no skin off your nose to start calling them tea partiers, is it? Why not be the person to take the high road first?
While I doubt that few Americans would disagree with the supposed underlying premise that excess govt spending and overtaxation are bad, that message has been lost amid the racist, ignorant, slobbish outcries at their rallies. And the fact that there was no mention of overspending during the Bush years only damages their credibility that much more.
No, the tea party is not mainstream America. It seems to function only as an outlet for frightened, angry people who haven't been paying attention to politics for the past couple of decades. They seem to have no idea whatsoever how America got to the state it's now in. They DO see a black man in the White House, though.
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The Tea Party Is Nothing Like Mainstream America
