'Twas a Real Teabagging, alrighty!

[havocmom]

The "Teabagging" was real! But those fools we saw on TV were not the teabaggers.

One might consider:

The naive and oft abused (by the GOP power brokers) wingnuts were out in farce yesterday, protesting, well... what exactly?

Did any of them really look to be of the bracket that would see their taxes go up? Only those who make over $250,000.00 per year are gonna see any requirement to pay more. Perhaps the motley crews we saw on the TV do make that kind of money; money doesn't necessarily buy taste and there were some pretty tasteless hats, costumes, and signs out there. But mostly, they seemed to be the FAUX news sniffers and huffers of more modest means.

Why do they let themselves get suckered into spending a day of their lives in an attempt to make a rumpus over something that isn't going on? Dollars to donuts not many of them are gonna see their taxes go up. Why do they let the PR machine of the Powers that brokered this dismal economy sway them into going outside and making fools of themselves over a great big non-event?

They all have representation. If they are not happy with the actions of their Representatives, they can run or run someone against them and change things. It's the way representation works. If you have the hearts and minds of the most people on your side, you get your rep in. If not, you have to just be the 'loyal opposition' for the upcoming term, then take another turn at booting whichever rep you see as a bum. Ain't democracy grand? America! I love it!

But they are taking a page from poorly learned history and trying to don the tri-cornered hats of the patriots who instigated throwing off the yoke of long established British power brokers who did not consider Americans to be full citizens with rights.

Badly learned history indeed. They are clowns preforming FOR the same forces of class warfare that the long ago patriots fought against. They let themselves be victimized by the very thing they are pretending to be struggling (so bravely in their tea-bag bedecked chapeaus) against.

This is not 1773. Obama is not Britain. The taxes are not going up. They all DO have representation. What's the beef?

They are just pissed that the (white) candidate of their choice got his ass handed to him last November. They are making excuses for the social cancer they suffer from, racism. They are not being honest with the rest of us, with the majority of Americans who voted for the horse of a different color AND for change. Worst of all, they are not being honest with themselves.

They are just pissed and too lazy to really do the work of discovering what they are angry about. They prefer to let the PR minions that is FAUX news and radio HATE do their thinking for them. They abdicated the most precious of 'God's gifts', free will. They gave up most sacred of American rights/responsibilities, making INFORMED decisions. They threw away their right to representation by letting others fool, mislead, and abuse them. So much easier to be a blind follower and pretend you are a brave defender of the American Way. It's pretty much like supporting the troops by slapping a yellow magnet on your car.

And by the way, sporting that magnet is NOT supporting the troops; paying the tax money that buys them equipment to survive IS.

Why the whole marketing exercise to attempt to raise hell about taxes? Because the lucky folks at the very top of the economic ladder, including the bastards with the Tax-Payer paid bonuses, are facing having their taxes rise back to the level they paid before bush & a GOP Congress lowered them prior to starting a very expensive war that their offspring were in no jeopardy of having to spill blood in. From 36% back up to 39% is the reason for the teabag season.

That is all it is. Three percent of tax rate on the very top tier of incomes. That tax break that DID NOT TRICKLE down, did not create jobs, did not ensure the financial security of the working class, the middle class, not even the upper middle class. It was a tax break for the fattest of cats at a time bush lied and his GOP dominated Congress lapped up the dishonest shit like it was mother's milk and gave the OK to go to war.

NOW they wanna grumble about deficits? Where the hell were they when we gave tax cuts to the richest while sending the sons and daughters of the other classes to fight a war for profiteers? Do they never stop and consider all the lives, all the money they seem to hold so dear? Where were they and their bags when that shit was going on? Oh, that's right, it was a president without a D after his name on ballots, and one who was the same color as they are. No harm, no foul if it is a fellow cracker, I guess.

But they were out yesterday, out in farce, after weeks of PR and marketing to them.

Teabagging? Yeah, I am one of the many who did not know that term for a particular adult activity (although I will not claim ignorance of the activity). I admit, I had to look that one up to find out what Rachel and the rest were so damned tickled about.

Teabagging? Yep that is EXACTLY what happened yesterday. Only it wasn't a tax protest. It was the more vile minions and members of the very rich using the naive, confused, intellectually lazy. It was the most undemocratic of the top economic tier dipping and it was the idiots in the silly hats just laying there with their mouths open and the vague notion that somebody was screwing them.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I loved the locals with signs saying, "Kill the Death Tax"! I live in the 2nd. lowest income per

capita state in the country. Also a lady interviewed on TV was ranting about the tax burden on her kids while at the same time saying Obama should give all the tax money back to the taxpayers. If people are worried about the national debt, why aren't they demanding higher taxes now?

[havocmom]

8. The Estate Tax rumpus is a particular mystery to me

Read recently that it affects about 1000 families a year. Why do people think it is a burden to all of us? Who was the Robber Baron who, when asked why the very rich did not fear the masses, who outnumber them so greatly, responded that at any given time he could turn half of them against the other half.

We gotta evolve beyond being so easily led against ourselves as a people.

[SPedigrees]

2. And that was the point I made

on another thread, a point that got me attacked as supposedly having attacked the working class (to which I belong.) These people are the stupid among the working class, manipulated by greedy rich white men, angry about losing their tax cuts.

[havocmom]

6. Hear ya. If you are being fair, you are bound to piss some of the people off

all of the time ;)

It is like the GOP and wingers attacking the left for war protests. 'Love it or leave it' never made sense to me. If you love something/someone, you want it/them to be the best they can be. Can't do that without addressing mistakes. Pointing something out, for the purpose of making positive changes, is not an attack. It is what caring people do.

Obama does not hate America when he confronts mistakes we, as a nation, have made. You and I do not hate the working classes by pointing out some among us have their heads up their asses while they complain something stinks.

[Cary]

3. You elevate their stature when you say they are being used.

I am as troubled as you appear to be with their senselessness and I too am strugling to try to make some sense of them. I am even more troubled by the fact that their philosophy, or worldview, or whatever it is governed us for the past 8 years, and I am more troubled yet to know that it could happen again.

But while part of me struggles to make sense of them, another part of me tells me that I'm an idiot for trying to make sense of senselessness. Making sense of them gives them too much credit, as if there is some way to make sense of their nonsense.

[havocmom]

5. Yeah, some of us have an addiction to trying to make sense of all of it

Been told, more than once, that I 'think too much'. And, like you, part of me is telling me understanding a lot of things just isn't possible because a lot of things are just mindless reactions. ALL of me is old enough to know that all cannot be known. Guess I am just stubborn ;)

[Laelth]

4. Well said. k&r n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[ProgressiveFool]

7. Yes, the minions are sort of low-hanging fruit, if you will /nt

[havocmom]

10. LOL, you may be Progressive

but I doubt you are Fool :thumbsup:

[L. Coyote]

9. "candidate of their choice got his ass handed to him" says it all = "post-traumatic loser disorder"

:rofl: Life is simple, if not hilarious, on the sidelines! :rofl: They will recognize their symptoms soon enough. :rofl:

[havocmom]

11. I resist the notion that that 'says is all'

To me, that diminishes the righteous rage half the nation felt at the theft of 2000. But yeah, they are petty* pissed off

* not a typo, they ARE petty and they, most definitely, are NOT pretty.