What's behind the tea party's rage?

Things have been kind of tough for us liberals lately, haven't they?  The right has been  pecking away at a lot of the progressive programs and regulations and environmental victories we've won over the years, and they've done a pretty damn good job of demonizing us at the same time.  However, with the advent of the tea party they have gone from being extremely annoying to outright nihilistic, even to the point where many were advocating that America default on our debt payments and bring down the government!  Wow!!

How about a little perspective.

I'm 66 years old and in my lifetime liberals have had a lot of successes and have made a HUGE difference in America.  When I was a kid Jim Crow laws were enforced in the south, now we have a black President. When I was a kid women were stuck in the home, or could work as nurses or teachers, little else.  Now women are CEOs, scientists, and run for President.  Today abortion is legal, gay marriage is fast becoming acceptable, interracial marriage is not even controversial anymore.  And for every major liberal win, the conservatives have been getting more and more pissed off about how the country is going to hell!!!  

Put yourself in their place.  How would you feel if our side kept losing year after year after year?  And not small losses either, but huge monumental losses such as complete equality for blacks and women, and the acceptance of gay marriage by a slim majority.  These and other major progressive improvements have been huge, humiliating losses for conservatives and hard core bigots over the years.

But now they believe they have FINALLY managed to get the upper hand, and By God they're going to punish us liberals and Democrats, even if it means destroying our country, because chaos and anarchy is better than seeing blacks elected president and gays getting married, and having lawyers tell them they can't force kids in school to pray to their God.

This is all about pent up anger and frustration, and those on the right, especially in flyover country, somehow believe that 90% of the country thinks like they do, and in 2012 they are going to finally wipe out the left once and for all!

They don't realize that the pendulum is beginning to swing back our way and is just about to smack them in the head and squash them flat.  You can bet the farm on that!

--Trakker

Comments

[Dan D. Doty]

Trakker, you really didn't get the Tea Party people at all.
You're just doing at lot of projection and very, very bad guess work; Your conjectures tell me about you, rather then them.

Why don't you just ask them what they are about instead.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you shall always have victory.

[Trakker]

Okay, here's a tea partier:

A South Carolina Republican county co-chair is embroiled in a controversy over "liking" a Facebook article that advocated shooting law enforcement officers.

Jeff Mattox, who is also a tea party activist with the Kershaw County Patriots, gave digital plaudits to an article entitled "When Should You Shoot A Cop" posted on the Patriot's Facebook page.

"That’s what it means to have an unalienable right. If you have the unalienable right to speak your mind (a la the First Amendment), then you have the right to KILL “government” agents who try to shut you up. If you have the unalienable right to be armed, then you have the right to KILL ”government” agents who try to disarm you," argued a poster at copblock.org

See more at http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0711/Shoot_a_cop_flap_in_SC.html

[Dan D. Doty]

And this has what to do with gay marrige, a black president, praying in school and abortion. Your main piece is very narcisstic in nature; I hate them, so they must hate me, I want to destroy them, so they must want to destroy me ( not to mention the part where you assume the vast majority of people think just like you, please; if that were true you would have gotten everything you wanted a very long time ago).

You didn't even go to their website to find out what they believe or stood for. Most the stuff you talk about is nonsense floating around your head, or Leftwing websites. But you did show me that you think the state has the right to take away someone Civil Liberties if they so chooses. Shades of Big Brother.

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Someone in 1508, qui illis matellam porrigant, needs his own blog

A finds an omission, B disagrees with something, C attacks the author's private life, D praises him so grudgingly that abuse would be preferable. Moreover, no one judges more unjustly than the half-learned, who measure other people's learning by their own, and think anything is to be found fault with that they have not learnt themselves; or else those scholars who have not yet tried this kind of work. These, as the Greek proverb says, judge the Achaelans from the ramparts, and are like people idly standing on the shore and watching the skill and hazards of the man who is sailing the boat. If they had a try themselves, they would read the efforts of others with less squeamishness and more indulgence.

- Erasmus On His Times : A shortened version of The Adages of Erasmus, by Margaret Mann Phillips, Reader in French, King's College, London, (c) 1967, Cambridge U Press, page 21. Standard Book No. 521-05413-5

[Trakker]

Moreover, no one judges more unjustly than the half-learned, who measure other people's learning by their own, and think anything is to be found fault with that they have not learnt themselves;...

Do you think this might be too subtle?

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Do you think this might be too subtle?

Google Translate does a fair job with the Latin, "to them on are directing VESSEL," sort of, Hold the master's piss pot steady, in modern parlance, Know your place.

[Trakker]

Aye, aye, sir!

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Full speed ahead

The iceberg will get out of the way.