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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 02:01 PM
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Teabaggers - being used - by whom? I think we know.
This week they have been used by the infamous 1%. These are the people at the top who are vulnerable to changes in the Federal Income Tax laws – the ones who trust that we can handle paying all the taxes needed to run the country.

So what happened is average people protested paying taxes for them. And they got it with an amazing media coverage on the teabaggers, not them. Average people, who are going to benefit more in reduced taxes under Obama then they did under Bush, came through.

Sadly, these teabaggers could care less about learning about how those at the top get rich and stay rich because we allow them to keep their money out of this country - making us poorer. And how they register their companies outside the US to avoid legislation related to employee compensation and laws that require expenditures, including pollution and safety and every other law their legal counsel can dig up.

Side benefactors this week were the Norquists and anti-tax organizations who could have never been able to get the camera time that the teabaggers got. Sadly, these anti-tax teabaggers can provide no alternative to our tax based structure that allows us to drive safely, call the police or fire station, provide judges and juries, provide programs for the children,… etc. They could probably don’t even know what the Norquist people want or any of the other protesters suggest. It’s an empty show.

Then ... they are perfect for Rove and his Party leaders and their barons. These average people don’t know enough to spot the fact that they are taking every single atrocity of the Bush administration and accusing Obama of being guilty of it. They just don’t’understand history. It is a perfect set-up – starting with the lost Palin and Bachmann.

They are perfect for the RNC and Republican powers. Those powers knew there was a danger that some of their voting base could have been influenced and learned something during these years after Cheney-Bush. All this attention on them secures their status as an easily manipulated voting base. The lies keep coming and the camera is on THEM! (Rather than their voice being heard on the Washington Journal or as call-ins to hate radio shows). The camera and their stardom is a perfect tool to retain their loyalty until the next election and all the other elections in their future.

Then there are the seething bigots. Their bigoted leaders got these average Joes to think that he is not in the White House legally. Imagine that.

These are only five examples of how teabaggers are used.

You have to give it the Republicans for knowing how to exquisitely and consistently manipulate the minds of these terribly vulnerable average people. The manipulators work it like masters of magic and miracles. They are outstanding in what they do. Too bad it’s against our shared country, our children and their children, and our future in total.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 02:06 PM
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1. I think Dick Armey who is out to get the right wing nutso's back in power.
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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 02:07 PM
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2. And if That 1% and The RNC had Legitimate Points, They Wouldn't Need to Be So Dishonest
this TeaBagging is a front.... and the dopes who go along with this don't have a clue.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 02:44 PM
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3. Whenever Grover Norquist actually puts his face out in public crying & whimpering about...
Any thought-to-bo tax policy that may effect his 1% handlers to their detriment? You know his ride just got bumpier. And he has been told to get out there and earn his damn dinner. Baggers themselves are quickly becoming seen as the predominately white, well off, clay-like, double & triple dipping, mentally spongy little church mice that never demonstrated against anything; not corporate person-hood, not representation without taxation, not the dismantling of America's public school system, not hunger not homelessness, not endless war, not the deaths & dislocation of 100's of thousands of innocent people until someone scared them into the proposition that they'd be having to explain their own thoughts only *then* have baggers mobilizes and *even* then at the behest of their corporate handlers...but it isn't working not really,

And the proof of that can be seen in every one of their usual suspect corporate handlers now crying about having to answer for their manipulative neo-Nazi propaganda & practices as though showing up wrapped in the American flag with a plastic crucifix would absolve them from their desires for white socio-economic supremacy


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KT2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 03:51 PM
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4. Polarizing is part of it too
As long as they can have two factions (of serfs) fighting it out, the top stands immmune - the people are distracted.
We should no longer attack the teabaggers, we should pity them for being manipulated and make that OUR talking point. We need to point out the powers behind them and what their agenda really is.

What if the right and left actually joined forces?
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 05:25 PM
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5. It would start out with us banging our heads against the wall. Are there any
Edited on Sat Apr-17-10 05:36 PM by peacetalksforall
stories from history where this has occurred - it would help to have a or some role model(s).

I like graphics and charts, video and documentaries. They are so hyped up that pages of text would appear to be too much for them to take in.

It would be necessary to study the steps it would take to wash brains.

I would like to see it. I once thought we should pre-empt a violent separation and get peole to participate in a voluntary and sincere adult separation. Let them have their own laws about abortion and guns and taxes and their need to hear English only.

We should either get smart together or figure out how to be tolerant or seperate.

Our world is not about Republican-Democrat, right-left, fe/male-fe/male, Moslem/Mexican love/hate - it's about corporate baron control over all uf us.

We should consider jointing forces.
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The Gunslinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 05:40 PM
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6. They are the corporate militia
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