Yes, those who are in the tea-party movement are not new, represent no new vision, and just offer the same old Corporate Republican policies that has nearly destroyed this country more than once:
Conservative Republicans outnumber moderate/liberal Republicans in the general population by about a 2-to-1 margin; among Tea Party supporters, the ratio is well more than 3 to 1. More generally, almost 8 out of 10 Tea Party supporters are Republicans, compared with 44% of all national adults.
These findings are based on three surveys Gallup conducted in March, May, and June of this year. Thirty percent of Americans, on average, identify as Tea Party supporters -- a percentage remarkably consistent across the three surveys.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/141...
This represents the percentage of Americans that I dub as the greediest and least patriotic among us. They actually represent about 3 or 4 percent of the population, but they are also able to drag along the most narrow-minded among us who are easily whipped into a frenzy of hate over something, or constantly want to be blowing people up somewhere. From them we get endless war, tax breaks for millionaires, corporate welfare, outsourcing of jobs to take advantage of virtual slavery, and selfish hatred against anyone who dares look, act, or believe different than they do.
These are the folks who destroyed our country. Every bit of progress in rights for workers, minorities, women or anyone else was won fighting tooth and nail against these folks. They hate anything the government does unless of course it lines their pockets only. You see, they are not a new movement at all but they just had to put their bullshit in a new, shiny bag to disguise how much it has always stunk.
And before you think that they are going to have some kind of huge affect on this election, consider this:
One reason for interest in the burgeoning Tea Party movement this year has been its potential impact on the midterm elections in November. Already the Tea Party is viewed as affecting Republican primaries, with its chosen candidates prevailing or poised to do so in several contests, including the withdrawal or defeat of well-funded "establishment" Republican candidates in the Florida and Kentucky Senate races.
This potential impact is clear from data showing that Tea Party supporters are more enthusiastic about voting this year than are Americans overall, and more likely to say they are certain to vote. At the same time, Tea Party supporters are no more enthusiastic or certain to vote than the traditional Republican base -- conservative Republicans.
It appears as if being the same old crap in a shiny new bag means that these folks will not affect the elections much at all. They have always voted, and voted Republican. They brought us the sorry state of our country that we are desperately trying to clean up. Debt, deficit, deregulation disaster, environmental disaster, slavery, lost wages, lost productivity, and the idiocy to point the finger at someone else for the mess they created. That has long been the mantra of the greediest and least patriotic among us no matter what they called their movement.
It is refreshing to know that America has not fallen for this garbage. I think we should work hard to fight against, not placate those who would peddle the same old crap in a shiny new bag. It is time to stand up and slap them in the mouth with the truth. |
