The Tyranny of Willful Ignorance - A LTE taking on the Tea Party Phenomenon

[Mira]

"We the people of the 5th District of NC," with our infamous Congress critter Virginia Foxx, also have folks who can write a letter like this:

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Wednesday March 3, 2010

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Winston-Salem Journal


Tyranny of willful ignorance

OK, let's have a tea party.
Let's write these notes on our hands or other visible body parts.

What is it with big, empty-headed states and cut-and-run-to-the-next-speech governors, still in withdrawal from being strung out on oil?
What is it about the combination of vast spaces, fossil fuels and tribalism that so breeds uninformed contempt?

So how's that non-think-y, simplistic-y thing goin'? I think it's goin' like something from The Handmaid's Tale. We are beset by jihadists in disaffected middle-class clothes.

The Tea Party folks didn't personally know Jesus or the Founding Fathers (oh, there's a difference?), but don't mind forcing their literal thoughts on the benighted.
Will we soon hear calls for compulsory armament and procreation?

Demagoguery replaces the flawed but reasonable authority of expertise with the tyranny of willful ignorance.
Incoherent anger and unalloyed rage are probably not the best basis for sound governance.

There seems to be an indifference to addressing the real, systemic problems of corporate capitalism, which is not surprising when some conflate Nazis and communists while grasping tightly their socialized Medicare.

In a brew dark with inherent contradictions, there is another rich irony; much of the best tea comes from India and China.

Drink up.

[rooftoprevolutionary]

1. Great LTE

Thanks for posting this.

[Mira]

2. Thanks! And I want to welcome you to our community. N/T

[rooftoprevolutionary]

6. thank you

hope to see you around mine too: rooftoprevolutionaries.blogspot.com

[hfojvt]

3. that could have been much, much shorter

"I am superior to thee"

[Green_Lantern]

4. you lost me at OK..

Was your letter printed? I only get mine printed when I make sharp and concise points.

[Mira]

5. Not my letter, Green Lantern.

It's one I liked.
I get mine printed, yes I do.
Every time.

But when you take on this subject with concise and sharp points, post it, and I will read the whole thing.
Not dismiss it at word one.