If
all you listened to is Tea Party radio, you would think that America as we know
it was gone; that the zombie apocalypse had taken place, and it was every man,
woman and child fighting for themselves. Long live America as the saying goes.
The red, white and blue will not be the same until the tentacles of government
are out of our lives; unless, the right sees the moral imperative to stick their
tentacles into everyone’s business be it the bedroom or uterus.
For
this right-wingers government has a place in both of those aforementioned cases,
but on the other hand it needs to get rid of taxes on businesses and stop
trying to regulate them to death. Businesses can be trusted to do the right
thing, but individuals cannot. The right’s need to find a boogey man is well
placed in history. They are the party of how awful the world is when they are
not in control of the White House.
The
fact that Osama bin Laden is dead cannot be celebrated as a victory for America
because a Democrat was in the White House at the time of his capture and death.
The fact that the Dow Jones is soaring at its highest peak in history cannot be
celebrated because a Democrat is residing in the White House. These are only
two of a multitude of examples of how the self-serving needs of right leaning
politicians and pundits are more important than the needs of America.
You
Tea Partiers keep pretending that you don’t love government because that is a
lie. You love government when it serves your purposes. When it doesn’t, you
have no use for government. This is irony at its best. All Americans should be
proud of the accomplishments of our government and the people that serve. But,
in this day and age it is impossible to make that happen. There is too much
malice and distrust.
What
makes Tea Party radio so compelling is the fact that on nearly every broadcast
the sky is falling. America as we know it is on life support, and if you do not
believe and act in accordance with their right-wing views, then, you are adding
to the problem. Science takes a backseat to phony fabrications of doubt such as
because I say it ain’t true, then, of course whenever a scientist says
something I don’t agree or it does not fit into my world view it is a lie.
Or,
if an economist says that the Affordable Care Act is saving money, that
economist is a hopeless liar because their world view does not match up with
mine. In fact, anyone that disagrees with the Tea Party is a lying son-of-a-bitch.
There is no way to argue with this type of logic. “I am right and you are wrong
because I say so."
This
leaves the country with nowhere to go; it puts all efforts to move the economy
forward at a standstill. It means that fear mongering by both sides of the
aisle is the only political cudgel available and each side is ready to use it
to beat their constituents and each other.
Until
the fear mongering is stopped, there will be no forward progress politically,
which is what the Tea Party wants. They are like the little boy that takes his
ball and runs home when he cannot win the game. In this game of chicken, they
have the power. They feel enfranchised by their ability to say, “My way of the
highway”.
They
feel no need to compromise their values and belief systems because this would
be completely contrary to what they stand for. The only political recourse they
possess is fear mongering and hope that enough people will jump overboard and
swim to a Tea Party lifeboat where their independent thinking will be beaten
out of them before they are allowed to crawl to safety.
Remember
all you Tea Partiers, be careful what you wish because it may become true. You
sure didn’t like it when the IRS put a little heat on your deceptive nonprofit
status. What is good for the goose is good for the gander unless you are a member
of the Tea Party and, then, everyone else’s motives must be scrutinized and vilified
because they do not think like us so they are the enemy and must suffer as such
until they see the light and fall in line.
