About those teabaggers (something I haven't heard discussed)...

[tk2kewl]

Its seems like they are generally over 50 or 60 yrs. old. How many of them wouldn't even exist if their parents or grandparents were not the beneficiaries of a "socialist" New Deal program? I bet quite few limbs on the teabagger family tree would have never even gotten a chance to sprout had it not been for FDR.

[supernova]

1. That's true,

They've either forgotten, or just never known the extent to which some of their parents benefited from the New Deal. That would be very fitting with that generation that they didn't share with their kids if they were getting help or got a job because of the WPA, for instance.

[RandomThoughts]

2. You might not have heard it discussed.

But you are talking eugenics, and many people think they should advocate for better people having children, and not lesser people. Of coarse they think they can decide what people are better or worse.

The arguement is people that have been productive and can afford health care should live so they can pass on knowledge and genes.

However, what is requiered to get health care, could be more about social conformity to a system, regardless of its merits, and not about the actual qualities of the person. Why I think no person should make those decisions, and why I also think health care is a right.

Really odd, because those are some of the same people that say they are against abortion, but do not want to give the people that get pregnant the security of knowing they have health care, and will have affordable health care.

[peace frog]

3. Socialism is OK as long as it benefits them

but if the socialism under discussion might benefit those *icky* brown and black peoples, that's another thing altogether.
That's when socialism becomes *evil, wicked, baaaaad*!

[nxylas]

4. I don't think it's that coherent

I think the teabaggers genuinely can't see the connection between the government interference they decry and the government programs they benefit from. I spoke to people like them all the time when I worked for South Carolina state government and they could literally go from "the government should be drowned in a bathtub" to "the government should do more to help me" within the course of a single sentence.

[LetsgoWings13]

5. well a lot of people are saying that they are old (which you stated) and they are

rich, so im sure they would have been fine ;)