American "Tea Parties" rise to protect the wealthy!
March 29th 2009 20:38
All across America so-called "Tea Parties" are being organized to protest the imagined wrongs being perpetrated by the Obama Administration when it comes to tax policy. Average Americans who will get tax relief as well as real health care reform are mad as hell, and not going to take it any more.
Never mind that Obama's policies directly benefit them. Their leaders have trumpeted a call to arms! The "dittoheads" and those like them answered the call, regardless of realities. Evidence isn't important, facts aren't important, all that matters is what they have been told.
Obama is bad, Obama is a communist, Obama is a socialist, Obama is a dictator to be, Obama is - here's the newest one - a statist. And damn it, he must be stopped. They are told there is some grand plan to enslave them all in an oppressive and all-powerful state.
Why such the huge uproar? Because those who are pulling the strings of the conservative puppet show know that this is the big game for them. If Obama's policies work, they will be out of power for decades. If they can make the changes fail, conservatives can return to supremacy, or so the thinking goes.
The sad part is, they don't want improvement for the working condition, they don't want health care that works for everyone. They know that a strong and vibrant working class secure in it's future and health is tantamount to obscurity for the neo-conservative movement in America. And the mouthpieces who became rich pushing conservatism aren't about to go quietly into the night.
Just what are these "Tea Parties" anyway? First, a slap in the face of the namesake. The original protests over tea erupted in the American colonies in response to too much corporate power and it's "free market" results. The original Tea Party protested exactly the policies conservatives have espoused over time. No restrictions on corporate power or profit, no rights for the proverbial "little guy." The current Tea Party movement bastardizes the original ideal to come out in defense of the very policies the first Tea Party protested.
Of course it's not the first time history has been twisted by those who would exploit it to their own ends, and it won't be the last. Still, it's important to call out the current crop of right wing propaganda pusher. We are indeed at a crossroad in America. We can choose to make movements away from the bad policies that began in earnest under Ronald Reagan and continued until they pushed the economy to the brink.
Conservative leaders know that once we make the break with their past our future won't include them as much as they would like. And they are afraid. Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, they all know Obama's successes diminish them. Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly know working Americans won't see a tax increase - but they will. And that's the rub, isn't it? They are manipulating their audience to preserve their wealth, not to do anything that will benefit that audience.
Don't fall for it, people! Don't defend those who need it least against those who would actually benefit from real reforms. Don't let their imagined tyrannies rally you to the side of unfettered corporate and personal excess. Instead, think for yourselves. Will you benefit from health care reform? From labor rights? From better education for you and your children? If you answer yes, don't go to a Tea Party. Support real reform.
Never mind that Obama's policies directly benefit them. Their leaders have trumpeted a call to arms! The "dittoheads" and those like them answered the call, regardless of realities. Evidence isn't important, facts aren't important, all that matters is what they have been told.
Obama is bad, Obama is a communist, Obama is a socialist, Obama is a dictator to be, Obama is - here's the newest one - a statist. And damn it, he must be stopped. They are told there is some grand plan to enslave them all in an oppressive and all-powerful state.
Why such the huge uproar? Because those who are pulling the strings of the conservative puppet show know that this is the big game for them. If Obama's policies work, they will be out of power for decades. If they can make the changes fail, conservatives can return to supremacy, or so the thinking goes.
The sad part is, they don't want improvement for the working condition, they don't want health care that works for everyone. They know that a strong and vibrant working class secure in it's future and health is tantamount to obscurity for the neo-conservative movement in America. And the mouthpieces who became rich pushing conservatism aren't about to go quietly into the night.
Just what are these "Tea Parties" anyway? First, a slap in the face of the namesake. The original protests over tea erupted in the American colonies in response to too much corporate power and it's "free market" results. The original Tea Party protested exactly the policies conservatives have espoused over time. No restrictions on corporate power or profit, no rights for the proverbial "little guy." The current Tea Party movement bastardizes the original ideal to come out in defense of the very policies the first Tea Party protested.
Of course it's not the first time history has been twisted by those who would exploit it to their own ends, and it won't be the last. Still, it's important to call out the current crop of right wing propaganda pusher. We are indeed at a crossroad in America. We can choose to make movements away from the bad policies that began in earnest under Ronald Reagan and continued until they pushed the economy to the brink.
Conservative leaders know that once we make the break with their past our future won't include them as much as they would like. And they are afraid. Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, they all know Obama's successes diminish them. Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly know working Americans won't see a tax increase - but they will. And that's the rub, isn't it? They are manipulating their audience to preserve their wealth, not to do anything that will benefit that audience.
Don't fall for it, people! Don't defend those who need it least against those who would actually benefit from real reforms. Don't let their imagined tyrannies rally you to the side of unfettered corporate and personal excess. Instead, think for yourselves. Will you benefit from health care reform? From labor rights? From better education for you and your children? If you answer yes, don't go to a Tea Party. Support real reform.
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