I watched a documentary on the Tea Party last night and was honestly gobsmacked! Yeah I knew it existed and I knew it was gaining ground, I knew they loved Palin (says it all!) and that the bible belt tied with Fox News was helping drive the wagon but YE GADS! Nothing could have prepared me for the eye popping twaddle. People crying over it being called racist, people saying it was the holy spirit, tears, smiles and being 'very excited' seemed to have replaced any desire for, let alone effective, thinking!
It's as though the stupid people have banded together and reinforced each other's stupid to the point where their numbers just grow, a reservation for the terminally thick!
....please merkins, please tell me that cannot grow to rule... please...
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They'll gain the House of Representatives after today. The Senate will probably remain with the Democrats. There is a good chance Harry Reid will be defeated (which isn't a bad thing, IMHO).
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I watched that docu as well. I'm still ... 
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They give it a bad name.
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Well one thing that is good is that it isn't actually a 'party'. It looks to me like the Republics are tearing themselves apart. Big democracies can only ever be governed by parties from the 'middle' with any degree of success. Even if they successfully get some Republican seats of one sort or another my guess is their more moderate colleagues will see some of them as loony right wingers.
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I think it's a product of all the contradictions that have accumulated around the Republican party's rhetoric. They have tried to fuse the values of Jesus and Gordon Gekko and it seems to be cracking.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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With a bit of luck it'll be a cracking tea party!
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Rum wrote:Well one thing that is good is that it isn't actually a 'party'. It looks to me like the Republics are tearing themselves apart. Big democracies can only ever be governed by parties from the 'middle' with any degree of success. Even if they successfully get some Republican seats of one sort or another my guess is their more moderate colleagues will see some of them as loony right wingers.
For all intents and purposes the republican party and the tea party are one and the same; anyone with the slightest of moderate leanings has been purged or likely will be in the next election cycle. Couple that with rightward-leaning "Blue Dog" democrats and the apparent lack of a spinal column that seems to inflict most of the rest of the dems, and I suspect two years from now we'll be longing for the good old Bush days...
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Please tell me if they do grow to rule I can move in with you!floppit wrote:I watched a documentary on the Tea Party last night and was honestly gobsmacked! Yeah I knew it existed and I knew it was gaining ground, I knew they loved Palin (says it all!) and that the bible belt tied with Fox News was helping drive the wagon but YE GADS! Nothing could have prepared me for the eye popping twaddle. People crying over it being called racist, people saying it was the holy spirit, tears, smiles and being 'very excited' seemed to have replaced any desire for, let alone effective, thinking!
It's as though the stupid people have banded together and reinforced each other's stupid to the point where their numbers just grow, a reservation for the terminally thick!
....please merkins, please tell me that cannot grow to rule... please...
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And me!maiforpeace wrote:Please tell me if they do grow to rule I can move in with you!floppit wrote:I watched a documentary on the Tea Party last night and was honestly gobsmacked! Yeah I knew it existed and I knew it was gaining ground, I knew they loved Palin (says it all!) and that the bible belt tied with Fox News was helping drive the wagon but YE GADS! Nothing could have prepared me for the eye popping twaddle. People crying over it being called racist, people saying it was the holy spirit, tears, smiles and being 'very excited' seemed to have replaced any desire for, let alone effective, thinking!
It's as though the stupid people have banded together and reinforced each other's stupid to the point where their numbers just grow, a reservation for the terminally thick!
....please merkins, please tell me that cannot grow to rule... please...
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Whatever you do, don't tell us the name of the film.
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Randydeluxe wrote:Whatever you do, don't tell us the name of the film.
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Actually I know next to nothing about them. Where can I find this documentary?
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