Rachel Maddow - Echoes of Confederacy seen in tea party

[applegrove]

[ourfuneral]

1. ECHOES???

More like a straight-up replay!

[Thinkingabout]

2. Yep, it is a replay and with less thoughts on hurting others.

[on point]

4. Unless they don't get their way then there are always the guns .....

[drynberg]

12. AN EXAMPLE BEING THE GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN WITH NO HURTFUL CONSEQUENCES

Except leaving the elderly hungry, running up a $28Bill waste debt, laying off 800,000 federal employees, etc. Not hurtful my butt!

[another_liberal]

3. The Tea Party (and much of the Republican Party along with them) are clearly traitors.

They want to severely weaken if not destroy our Federal government. Many of them also openly call for rebellion and secession from the National Union. If that is not a traitorous plan of action, just what the hell would be?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. They're not even trying to HIDE it anymore.

[Populist_Prole]

7. They're cooked and they know it. It's just childish angry defiance.

These are not the moves of a movement that is a viable going concern: These are the moves of a bloc that lost the battle for the direction the country is taking and just want to go down swinging,

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. I get the idea that they really believe they ARE the majority....

And if they ever got into power they're single binding slogan would be "Death to all who oppose us."

[marble falls]

10. I live in Tea Party central, they definately believe they represent the vast majority in the US.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. It's hard to tell because of their arrogance....

Look how Republicans act when they eek out 50.0001% of the vote and act like they can now to a total crackdown on the 49.9999% that voted against them.

Meanwhile Democrats can win with 75% and act like they need to ask the Republicans permission to take a crap.

[applegrove]

6. It is like they want to get America & african americans back, forcing notherners and westerners

and African americans to lose. They need therapy.

[KansDem]

9. Question of DU Southerners...

150 years ago this nation was embroiled in a civil war. As I understand it, the South wanted to succeed, claiming "states' rights." And slavery was to be maintained.

However, at that time we had an essentially power white over-class and an underclass of black slaves essentially uneducated and lacking power of any kind.

If these TeaPublicans are really serious about reviving this same mindset, how far could they go before an educated and more powerful "underclass" can stop them?

It seems to me they haven't taken into consideration fully that they'll be taking on a part of Southern society that will no longer act as a "whipping boy," but that now have fought for and secured (to a degree) both political and economic power.