In
their world, these wackadoodles shout and cry and demand their time to be
heard. They act as if they are misunderstood and that all their positions need
to be followed at all costs because they and only they know what is best for America.
That
last statement is ironic as these right-wing hooligans genuflect about issues
like the VA scandal, however, when asked to expand funding for the VA, 41
Republican Senators voted down Bernie Sanders’ bill to do just that in the
weeks prior to the Arizona outrage. Hypocrisy rules the beltway. You Tea Party
loyalist can't cry the VA is failing veterans when you refuse to put money into
the system that is forced to deal with veterans that are returning from 12
years of war.
In
the Tea Party world, all the problems are caused by the Democrats, thus, they
and their fellow Republicans have no responsibility to any problems that we
face. Unemployment=Democratic issue; healthcare=Democratic issue; the
VA=Democratic issue. It must be great when you are never responsible for
anything that goes on in America. Please keep shouting about how poorly you are
treated and how the world is against you.
The
best part of all this is the obscene amount of money being thrown about to
prove how mistreated and misunderstood Tea Party candidates and pundits are
these days. Sara Palin has made a career out of being a loser. How many people
keep getting paid millions of dollars to keep losing? I guess that Karl Rove
would fit into that category.
But,
I must get back to the topic at hand: how the Tea Party is being marginalized
and silenced by the democratically led government. Oh, the Democrats run the
federal government? Isn’t the House of Representatives is controlled by the
Republicans? You would never know it by the chest beating and cries of agony
from all this right-wing pundits and like-minded politicians.
However,
at the heart of all these alligator tears, is the issue of compromise. We have
now lost all the WWII veterans in congress. This is a sad day for America. The
one ideal that all these men and women held as sacred was the idea of
compromise. They sacrificed so much for their country that these politicians
were able to reach common ground because of their common experiences. They may
have had different views as to how to solve problems, but they were able to
overcome these differences because the country came first. This is no longer
the case.
Today’s
Tea Party politicians and pundits can rail about the demise of America, but
they are unable to acknowledge that compromise is at the heart of democracy.
Nondemocratic countries may see us as being weak and the Tea Party may shout
until they are blue in the face, but it is conciliation that has created the
nation that we are today. Democracy is a messy affair, and all the bellowing in
the world will not change that fact. The idea that the top can dictate to the
rest of society is absurd, which is the way that the Tea Party is proposing
America to be run.
In
their world, it is a corporate oligarchy that will decide what happens to
Americans be it healthcare, the minimum wage or who can marry who. What I fear
is corporate America taking over the halls of government in such a way that the
American worker is left further in the dust and whose rights will be whittled
away to nothing.
None
of these Tea Party elitists give a damn about average Americans. They are
looking out for their own self-interest. The Kohl brothers, Bill Kristal or Charles
Krauthammer don’t give a hill of beans about anything but their needs. The same
goes for Boeing, GE or GM. The bottom dollar is all that matters.
Just
remember, as the Tea Party leaders’ latest cries of intolerance reaches a
crescendo in the next few months, they are out for themselves and not the
American people. They have never lost their freedom of speech. This idea is merely
a tool to fool those of you who have fallen in line with their phony
machinations; good luck to you as they saddle you with the yoke of servitude
and condemnation.
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