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Bill8 · 09-29-2010, 09:11 PM

"A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can't imagine it."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/210904

is it an important article? no not really, it says things we all already know, that what the tea party is doing does not make sense on the face of it, that the tea hypocrisy is just a cover for a lower brain rage at loss of promised boomer priviledge, and barely concealed bigotry at all the mud people, and an oddly unstateable hatred of the educated elites that serve the corporations as wage-slave trustys - unstateable, because it goes against their stated belief that the rich are inherently good, and that only the rich, with their jobs (which for some reason they never actually provide), can save us from evils of socialism like medicare and social security.

you cannot understand politics without understanding the brain and how the lower part of the brain controls tribe identity in the herd.

the corporate masters understand that lower brain process very well, and are using it, thru the media that they own, to control people and secretly seize power. The corporations have become a type of parasite that has infected the host body of this country and paralyzed it's brain - leaving us to be slowly digested alive.

here's more from the article - the usual suspects from the usual tribes will read it and enjoy it, while the other usual suspects from the other tribes will of course not even look - for to do so would defy their masters will.

""I'm anti-spending and anti-government," crows David, as scooter-bound Janice looks on. "The welfare state is out of control."

"OK," I say. "And what do you do for a living?"

"Me?" he says proudly. "Oh, I'm a property appraiser. Have been my whole life."

I frown. "Are either of you on Medicare?"

Silence: Then Janice, a nice enough woman, it seems, slowly raises her hand, offering a faint smile, as if to say, You got me!

"Let me get this straight," I say to David. "You've been picking up a check from the government for decades, as a tax assessor, and your wife is on Medicare. How can you complain about the welfare state?"

"Well," he says, "there's a lot of people on welfare who don't deserve it. Too many people are living off the government."

"But," I protest, "you live off the government. And have been your whole life!"

"Yeah," he says, "but I don't make very much." Vast forests have already been sacrificed to the public debate about the Tea Party: what it is, what it means, where it's going. But after lengthy study of the phenomenon, I've concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They're full of shit. All of them. At the voter level, the Tea Party is a movement that purports to be furious about government spending ? only the reality is that the vast majority of its members are former Bush supporters who yawned through two terms of record deficits and spent the past two electoral cycles frothing not about spending but about John Kerry's medals and Barack Obama's Sixties associations. The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending ? with the exception of the money spent on them. In fact, their lack of embarrassment when it comes to collecting government largesse is key to understanding what this movement is all about ? and nowhere do we see that dynamic as clearly as here in Kentucky, where Rand Paul is barreling toward the Senate with the aid of conservative icons like Palin."

09-29-2010, 09:11 PM
Bill8 Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,901	Matt Taibbi's Oct. Rolling Stone article on the Tea Party "Tea & Crackers" is another Taibbi classic "A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can't imagine it." http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/210904 is it an important article? no not really, it says things we all already know, that what the tea party is doing does not make sense on the face of it, that the tea hypocrisy is just a cover for a lower brain rage at loss of promised boomer priviledge, and barely concealed bigotry at all the mud people, and an oddly unstateable hatred of the educated elites that serve the corporations as wage-slave trustys - unstateable, because it goes against their stated belief that the rich are inherently good, and that only the rich, with their jobs (which for some reason they never actually provide), can save us from evils of socialism like medicare and social security. you cannot understand politics without understanding the brain and how the lower part of the brain controls tribe identity in the herd. the corporate masters understand that lower brain process very well, and are using it, thru the media that they own, to control people and secretly seize power. The corporations have become a type of parasite that has infected the host body of this country and paralyzed it's brain - leaving us to be slowly digested alive. here's more from the article - the usual suspects from the usual tribes will read it and enjoy it, while the other usual suspects from the other tribes will of course not even look - for to do so would defy their masters will. ""I'm anti-spending and anti-government," crows David, as scooter-bound Janice looks on. "The welfare state is out of control." "OK," I say. "And what do you do for a living?" "Me?" he says proudly. "Oh, I'm a property appraiser. Have been my whole life." I frown. "Are either of you on Medicare?" Silence: Then Janice, a nice enough woman, it seems, slowly raises her hand, offering a faint smile, as if to say, You got me! "Let me get this straight," I say to David. "You've been picking up a check from the government for decades, as a tax assessor, and your wife is on Medicare. How can you complain about the welfare state?" "Well," he says, "there's a lot of people on welfare who don't deserve it. Too many people are living off the government." "But," I protest, "you live off the government. And have been your whole life!" "Yeah," he says, "but I don't make very much." Vast forests have already been sacrificed to the public debate about the Tea Party: what it is, what it means, where it's going. But after lengthy study of the phenomenon, I've concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They're full of shit. All of them. At the voter level, the Tea Party is a movement that purports to be furious about government spending ? only the reality is that the vast majority of its members are former Bush supporters who yawned through two terms of record deficits and spent the past two electoral cycles frothing not about spending but about John Kerry's medals and Barack Obama's Sixties associations. The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending ? with the exception of the money spent on them. In fact, their lack of embarrassment when it comes to collecting government largesse is key to understanding what this movement is all about ? and nowhere do we see that dynamic as clearly as here in Kentucky, where Rand Paul is barreling toward the Senate with the aid of conservative icons like Palin."