Tea Parties Have Right Spirit, Wrong Target

[november3rd]

The tea party movement initiated by Ron Paul's followers a couple of years ago has now officially been co-opted by "anti-big government" anti-Obama populists who complain of unemployment, the mortgage crisis, runaway government spending and taxes.

The only problem is that just about all these symptoms originate with the same disease--and it isn't big government, or even Obama's "socialist agenda."

As Moyers and Winship point out, while the tea parties are subsidized and led by corporate lobbyists and their political emissaries like Sara Palin, Steve King, and Michelle Bachman,

The banking industry and corporate America are fighting against proposed financial reform with all the money and influence at their disposal, attempting to preserve a system that would enable them to ransack the country once again.

Tea parties criticize the bailouts and the deficits, but overlook the big banks that engineered them and the business roundtable and chamber of commerce that promoted the insane supply-side economics and global "free" trade policies that shipped 10s of millions of American jobs overseas and bankrupted the government with unfunded tax cuts for the rich and wars fought on credit cards.

It's a shame progressives can't join the tea parties so we can fight together against our real enemies: the corporate chiefs and their mega-capitalist corporations that have bought elections,and corrupted and weakened Congress so they can swallow up our economy and incapacitate our middle class.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/041710a.html

[Tippy]

1. Join with them ...good idea but only after they realize how and who used them

[yurbud]

2. they are a tempest in a teapot that is given a lot of media coverage

the left turns out massive demonstrations and the media treats it at best as a one time curiosity instead of a broad movement.

[daleanime]

3. If the Teabaggers found a better target...

they would no longer be useful and the MSM would drop them in a second:mad:

[yurbud]

6. then the militias would become their new darlings.

[daleanime]

8. Sad....

and probably true.

[emulatorloo]

4. It represents 18% of the population. Strangely similar the to Bush's approval % number in 2008

I have no clue why all of the sudden there are so many "we should join the teabaggers" articles and posts coming out these days.

[The Magistrate]

5. If They Had The Right Spirit, Sir, They Would Have The Right Target

As it is, the real root of their actions is a drive to deny anyone worse off than they conceive themselves to be of the slightest degree of assistance from a government, a refusal to accept that the hard right politicians they identify with have lost national power in recent elections, and a deeply rooted convction black people are inferior and exist only to sponge off of whites.

[Democrats_win]

7. The tea party walks like the Republicans and sounds like the Republicans thus....

the Tea Party are the Republicans. If they were in fact genuine, wouldn't they be giving the banksters just a little grief instead of absolutley none at all?

Most Americans are scratching their heads over the tea party because the tea party isn't doing anything against Fraud Street.