The tea party: A conspiracy by the uber-rich to control America

[Joanne98]

Let’s call the phony grassroots tea party what it is: A gaggle of political misfits whose ignorance of key issue is matched only by the mindless enthusiasm of the hysterical idiots who support the movement.

The monumental stupidity of too many of the candidates fielded by this consultant-driven creation of the Koch brothers and big industry is on display daily.

But while the candidates fielded by the party are idiots, the party itself is part of a billionaire-funded grand scheme to place control of the American government firmly under control of the uber-rich.

Christine McDonnell, the Deleware Senate fruitcake/candidate put her incompetence on display Tuesday by claiming the Constitution doesn’t call for a separation of church and state and then compounding that ignorance by a shocked claim that she didn’t know the prohibition was in the First Amendment.

Where does the party of orange pekoe find these loons? Stupid question. They found them among the ignorant masses who flock to the tea party’s sham rallies and buy into the con-artist messages.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/33539

[Enthusiast]

1. Teabaggers are so fucking

stupid that they don't even recognize they are being duped.

[dtotire]

2. Doug Thompson has some pretty good columns sometimes n/t

[Wednesdays]

3. Actually, it's Christine O'Donnell, not McDonnell

However, it may be his conscious or unconscious linking of her name (which sounds like McDonald's) to the Corporate Takeover of America, which was the main point of the article.

[OnyxCollie]

4. K&R. nt.

[briteleaf]

5. Plutocracy in America

Dissing the tea party is a huge mistake. It's far too easy to point at fringe personalities and describe this movement as a collection of crazy yokels. This group is organized and funded by the wealthy concerns of America. Most of their names are well hidden by political groups that are not required to disclose information. Here's why the tea party is a real concern:

1. These are hard economic times that result in large portions of our country worried and eager to complain. Point them at the Democratic Party blaming it and you've just brought millions under your tent. Never mind the responsibility of the party that got America into such money problems and 2, long-playing, expensive wars. Blame the liberal, money-spending democrats and you pull in many supporters

2. Purport that you are for smaller government and more freedom and you get millions of Americans to shake their heads in agreement. Sounds good in theory but this truly equates to removing laws restricting large business from raping and poisoning America for greater profits. It is the freedom to send jobs overseas and move your corporate offices to a building in another country to avoid paying taxes. These are the true goals of the tea party. Smaller government is privatizing social security and eliminating all government programs to help the poorest Americans. Smaller government is eliminating public school funding. The only folks enjoying more freedom are the ultra-wealthy and the corporations they control.

3. The tea party supports many concerns of religious conservatives. That is enough to yank millions into their fold. Millions of us are not able to differentiate religious conservatism from political conservatism.

4. State that you want to "Take America Back" and you have lots of patriotic folks lining up as well as roping in militaristic, fringe groups. The tea party has used this strategy to pull in many folks who, for one of many reasons, feel disenfranchised.

So, you can point to tea party members and try to use them as reasons to be against the tea party but then you have been duped. The real reason for the tea party is the funded concerns of the ultra-wealthy. They don't really care if you're unhappy with our government. They don't care about your schools, freedom, religion or complaints. Their interests are in the large amount of money you will invest with them instead of social security. Their interests are in lower taxes for the wealthy. Their interests are for less regulation on how they do business to make money in America. America has quietly become a plutocracy (rule by the wealthy) and doesn't know it yet.

[Gin Blossom]

6. Well said - I couldn't agree more. And welcome to DU! n/t

[JohnWxy]

7. Tea Party favorites challenge status quo - USA Today

Here's an article in USA Today saying the Tea Partiers are going to change things in D.C.

Suggest someone (or even better, many) post a comment on the article (at link) including content from OP (or drawing on other posts on DU).

Really, it would be GREAT if some of the very good stuff posted on DU started showing up on media sites... to counter the Big Lie that the Tea-Party stands for anything other than Good-Ol' boy Republican Politics of pandering to Ignorance (i.e. conning the ignorant suckers).

What do you say? (I'm already doing this but there needs to be many more posts of sensible comments to articles on media sites) (NOTE: on most media sites you cannot put in URLs or links. So what you do is tell people the search terms to GOOGLE. ) It would be great to see comments referring to facts and articles to counter commments consisting of derisive name calling and chanting of Big Lies.

Note also that USA Today allows you to set up your own blog on their site. You CAN put active links in your own posts to your blog. Then you can refer people to your blog if they want live links to articles, studies, data. They also track your comments to articles for you.

Anybody feel sufficiently challenged? ... or sufficiently sick of Tea-party bullshit? Go for it! We really need to do more than just discuss these issues among the choir (with people who largely agree with you).

USA Today article link:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2010-10-19-tea-party_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

LOUISVILLE — They defined the election. Now, they hope to redefine the Senate.

Relying on an anti-Washington message of limited government and less spending, a growing number of Tea Party candidates are pulling even with their Democratic rivals or are frontrunners in some of the nation's most closely watched Senate races of this year's midterm election.
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