Tea party people consider themselves the same as those that wrote the Declaration of Independence

[demtenjeep]

Who are these people?

What do they want?

We hold these truths

At the most recent rally in Wichita, Feb. 20 at Century II, tea party organizer Lynda Tyler told 2,500 enthusiastic listeners from the podium that the last time Americans were as upset about government as they are now, they wrote a document called the Declaration of Independence. That document pointed out that it sometimes becomes necessary "for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another."

http://www.kansas.com/2010/03/05/1210581/movements-local-leader-surprised.html#storylink=omni_popular

[FrenchieCat]

1. That's easy. Teabaggers are Republicans who lost the last election.

They don't believe in shit beyond the fact that as far as they are concerned,
Pres. Obama shouldn't be President, ever.

[Cosmocat]

25. BINGO ...

Simply the most lunatic fringe of the republican party expressing its first amendment rights to engage in active sedition ...

IF they had even a small fraction of the "patriotism" they claim (in their distorted view), they would get their guns and actually DO something about it ... As is, they have life FAR too easy, and live off the very thing they are tilting windmills about ...

But, sure, the "liberal" press reports it as "grass roots" and "genuine anger in the country."

Just a bunch of children throwing a fit because their side didn't win ...

[madrchsod]

2. which proves they failed american history in school

well if they actually did go to school.....

[ChicagoSuz219]

16. Not to mention spelling... ;-) n/t

[demtenjeep]

3. "bind up the nations wounds"

Lincoln gave his life for this and look where we are now.

[DFW]

4. One rather big fundamental difference there, people:

Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, really could write, and was literate.

[MUAD_DIB]

6. Wasn't he also a deist?

I'm not sure if the baby Jeebus would approve of their fondness for him.


Maybe they look back to Jefferson's slave-holding days and think that they could be just like him.

[KonaKane]

7. He was. Had Jefferson been alive today, the 'baggers would have called him

a hippy pinko.

[KonaKane]

5. Never met a 'bagger who actually read the Declaration of Independence

although many quote it. Wrongly.

[npk]

18. That is so funny and true

And they are so proud of their quotes.

[DFW]

38. House Republican leader John Bonehead quoted the Declaration

Of course, he stated to the country while doing it that he was quoting from the Constitution.

Oh, well, it's the thought that counts............

[Juche]

8. They are fighting against tyranny

Namely the tyranny of having a democratically elected black president in their lifetime.

[ginnyinWI]

35. that's the key word---black.

That's the one thing they can't get over. That someone who to them is only "good enough" to be an athlete or entertainer should actually be our president.

Actual quote from my mom: "...well I know he's only half black, but still, somehow I just can't go along with it and accept it."

At least she admits it. She was born in 1930, in the days when Hollywood portrayed African Americans as singing, dancing, simple-minded "darkies" who loved to eat watermelon and tap-dance with little curly-haired white girls. And she's never known a person of color personally I don't think, in all of her 80 years.

[Historic NY]

9. They were the all men are created equal...except black men crowd.

[aquart]

15. All men, no women.

[Historic NY]

17. that too....

[FLyellowdog]

10. Actually sort of like the KKK in the 60's.

IMO

[Lifelong Protester]

11. Except without all that 'brainy-thinky' stuff goin' on in their heads

eh?

[npk]

19. Nothing is going on in their heads. n/t

[OHdem10]

12. Delusional--It is best not to compare one's self with History Greats.

Just does not work and makes people not take you seriously.

Delusions of grandeur.

[Rincewind]

13. They are, sort of.

Neither group has had an original thought in over 200 years. And both groups don't want black people and women to vote.

[Marr]

14. They would've been Loyalists. Not a doubt in my mind.

Right-wingers are extremely subservient to authority-- especially the "strong daddy" authority. A King is the ultimate "strong daddy" authority.

Ever since the early nineties, one of my little hobbies has been turning on right-wing radio the instant that a story of police brutality is reported. Every time-- every single time-- they back the officers before any details are in. I have never once, in all these years, heard a single one of them do anything but back the police.

For the record, it's just as silly when people *condemn* the police before the facts are in-- but right-wingers *never* do this.

[spoony]

21. There wasn't anything wrong with the Loyalists.

They rejected the anti-tax movement of a group of rich white slave owners. If Americans had opted for the Loyalist path we'd be like Canada now instead of the wild west.

[Marr]

26. That's an interesting idea.

I have to admit, I've never actually thought about it. It's impossible to know what would've actually played out, of course. If the US had remained a British colony, it might've greatly changed Britain's path as well. They would've have greater resources at times when their Empire needed them.

[mitchum]

29. I absolutely agree with you

[AllentownJake]

31. Northerners didn't like British manufacturing monopolies

And the Yankess started the war.

The South was more hesitant. William Wilberfore had yet ascended into the Parliament.

I'm from PA, we didn't like the idea of the war. Philadelphia was doing very well, and it was thought bad for business, but when your neighbors to the north and south go to war, you kind of have to go along.

[upi402]

20. fat, old, & white

:shrug:

[old mark]

22. Well, they certainly are delusional.....nt

[hobbit709]

23. The writers of the Declaration were educated

I wouldn't bet on the teabaggers.

[demtenjeep]

27. true

they are pathetic

[SalmonChantedEvening]

24. When, in the coarse of Hughman events... n/t

[mitchum]

28. Well, teabaggers would like to own slaves

[AllentownJake]

30. Have they tar and feathered any tax collectors yet?

Honestly this mystique we have our founders as a pristine bunch of nicely dressed men in Independence Hall is about as nonsensical as the Tea Baggers.

[fascisthunter]

32. delusions of grandeur

they more represent the loyalists of the KIng.

[demtenjeep]

36. yes they do

so that they don't miss out on their slice of the pie

[glowing]

33. No, they would be the people who wouldn't want change or progress

and would help the Brits... fearing retribution in the future. They would also be the one's who didn't know how to read or write and hadn't attended school for long or at all. So writing the D of Ind. would be a huge farse.

[ohheckyeah]

34. .........................

We hold these truths to be silf-evidant, that all men are created eqaul, that they are endowwed by their Creater with certain unalenable rights,that amung these are life, librtey and the persuit of happynes.

[slampoet]

37. I defy any Teabagger to name 10 of the founding fathers.

It is really easy to name 5, but you really have to know your history to name ten.

[WonderGrunion]

39. They liken themselves to slave owning cancer merchants?

Or is that not what they mean?

[DavidDvorkin]

40. The leaders of the CSA viewed themselves the same way

They considered themselves the true heirs of the Founding Fathers and saw the Union as having betrayed the original ideas of the Revolution.

I don't know how they reconciled that with their romanticizing of the Cavaliers of the period of the English Civil War. Perhaps the Roundheads represented industrialization and leveling.