Tea Partiers: Populist Corporate Camouflage

[Donnachaidh]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/ben-tripp/37920/tea-partiers-populist-corporate-camouflage

Dear Tea Party:

You made your point loud and clear. America hears you. You're angry about big government, social programs, incompetent politicians, and freeloaders. You hate taxes more than you love life. That's your privilege. Quite a few of you also hate immigrants, non-Christians, public education, and organized labor. These are not things I can understand, but I'm not here to talk about what you should or should not believe.

Instead, I'd like you to think about something. The Tea Party wave has already crested. You got a bunch of politicians elected to office at the height of your movement, but many of them turned out to be something other than what they promised. That happens to liberals a lot, too. President Obama, for example, turned out to be a disciple of Ronald Reagan. He's about as far from a socialist as they get, regardless of what you're being told. Need proof? Do you think corporate America would plan to drop half a billion dollars into re-electing a wealth-redistributing socialist?

One of the problems we can all agree on is that Washington is broken. Unfortunately, the people you sent in to fix things only ended up paralyzing the government even more. And worse than that, other forces are at work to use that paralysis against you, especially the establishment Right. They're using Washington gridlock to further marginalize your movement and make you into a joke, except as a useful bloc of votes. They can do what they want, knowing all they have to do is toss out a few keywords to rile you folks up -- unions, welfare, minorities, ACORN, or whatever -- and wait for the votes to roll in.

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