What in your opinion is fueling the TEA baggers' outrage?

[mistertrickster]

[alcuno]

1. They believed Karl Rove....

When he said that they would have a permanent Republican majority.

[w8liftinglady]

5. that's what I was going to say-Rove and the RNC hate machine

[mdmc]

2. They have done everything right yet cant get ahead..

they are white, christian, and work yet they are getting fucked by high taxes and low wages. Fucked by banks, wall street, and free trade.. they can't get ahead and are mad as hell..

[Rectangle]

7. And.....their RW media tells them to "look over there" at that bad black

man trying to take away your "Leave it to Beaver" style American dream!

[BlueIris]

3. Obama is a black man.

That's it. That's the fuel. The rest of the b.s. is just an excuse.

[demosincebirth]

14. Ditto for you.

[butterfly77]

18. Exactly...

[RagAss]

29. Amen...This Thread is Ovah !

[MkapX]

4. All of the above

Well its definity not taxes, if they actually researched they would find out that under Obama their taxes have gone down. I once heard Morton Blackwell leader of the right wing Leadership Institute explain that conservative activism is an process of copying their left wing counter parts. YAF being a carbon copy of SDS is a good example. So i figured that a bunch of wealthy republicans decided they wanted to copy the succuss of the anti war movement, so they got together with Glenn Beck and the Fox News noise machine..started a movement to make it look grass roots and feed them hyperbole and half truths and then leeched on to extremist groups like the "free state" movements.

[zbdent]

6. media complicity in giving them a forum for their "outrage" ...

unlike those who spoke their concerns about the upcoming invasion and occupation of Iraq ...

[kentuck]

8. Good question.

I would say that are angry that they lost the election to Barack Obama. Also, they feel alienated from the Republican Party after the reign of George Jr, the Curious. But, they don't want to admit they were part of the disaster of the last Administration. But they still want to be part of the Republican Party but they don't want to call themselves Republicans at this time. So they call themselves the Tea Party.

[Maru Kitteh]

9. They are now forced to realize that white doesn't run the world anymore

[doc03]

10. I think they are being used by the people with

a lot of money to try and stop the Bush tax cuts from expiring.

[handmade34]

11. fear

of not being in control... inability to face the truth... irrational thinking

[LonePirate]

12. Their own stupidity

[Demeter]

13. An Overweening and Undeserved Sense of Superiority and Entitlement

and lower than average smarts and mental stability.

[obxhead]

15. A complete lack of understanding and easily shaped ideas

A lot of these people are just gullible idiots, marching and screaming against their own best interests.

[Loge23]

16. It's basically Bush's base

They can't handle Barack Obama in the WH - for all the obvious reasons.

[political_Dem]

17. Racism, white privilege, pride in ignorance and entitlement.

Are they any different than the crowds that stood along with Bull Connor during the Civil Rights Era?

[madinmaryland]

20. +1000

[bemildred]

19. Hey, it's a job, jobs are hard to find since Bush crashed the economy. nt

[TransitJohn]

21. Stupidity, ignorance, hate and fear.

edited to add hate

[Initech]

22. They're angry because Fux News told them to be angry.

[RedCappedBandit]

23. All of the Above, but primarily they are sore losers

Funny how they're all about 'democracy' they are until they lose an election.

[jotsy]

24. Denial is the word that works for me.

They can't face that they stood either idly by or supported the perversion of everything the United States was supposed to stand for. It's pretty plain to see upcoming generations will be required to bear the weight of this era's indulgence, and lack of accountability is a standard set at the highest levels of just about everything. That was one thing that did in fact trickle down.

[sabrina 1]

25. You left one out ~

Mind-boggling stupidity. I think Fox, Beck, Palin et al have tapped into a fringe market made up of America's most ignorant fringe element. I have never seen anything like the sheer stupidity of Glen Beck and his band of tea-baggers. I have yet to see one intelligent representative of this 'movement'. And it's so cynical to take advantage of this kind of ignorance. I am not sure if it's conditioning, lack of education, or if this affliction comes from tuning in regularly to Fox, Limbaugh, Beck, Palin and Savage, Hannity et al. Maybe if we were to do that, we would all be this ignorant.

I remember listening to Hannity's radio show for a few days in a row a couple of years ago, to try to find out why he had any audience at all. It was so painful a process I remember thinking that you could probably get terrorists to reveal anything you wanted from them, just by threatening them with a week of Hannity.

But, there has to be more to it than that, because a sane person would simply turn them off before they got to the point of ending up like some of these tea-baggers.

[donheld]

26. MSM's love affair with them

[Warren DeMontague]

27. Tiny penis.

Tiny, tiny, tiny penis.



Teeeeeny, tiny, eeeentsy, weeeeentsy, leetle eeeety beeety teeny tiny penis.

[Juche]

28. The US is no longer white, conservative and republican

The mentality is the same as the mentality behind the KKK and Al Qaeda. A group of people feel they are the 'true members of nation XYZ', the real citizens who have the only attitudes real citizens should have, and all those 'others' (liberals, blacks, latinos, etc) are not. But now the 'others' are not only invading their neighborhoods, they are taking them over.

It used to be 20 years ago that conservative whites just had to 'put up with' blacks, liberals and latinos in 'their' society. But now those people run society (Pelosi and the dem congress, Obama). I think they feel they lost the culture war. Instead of just having to 'put up with' blacks, liberals and latinos the tea baggers now have to submit to blacks (like Obama), liberals (like Pelosi) and latinos. And it enrages them. They lost, and they feel 'their' society is invaded by the 'others'.

When Glenn Beck says Obama hates white culture, he is right. White culture, in Becks mind, is likely the idea that conservative white christians are the entitled kings of the United States. And in Becks mind Obama is a liberal black muslim. He 'hates' white culture because he doesn't submit to it. He is uppity.

So you see tons of efforts to delegitimize Obama. He wasn't born in the US. ACORN stole the election. He didn't recite the Oath of Office perfectly. Basically anything to deny him the authority he won fair and square in a democratic election.

There are strong parallels with Al Qaeda. They feel muslim fundamentalists are the 'real' arabs, but feel the 'others' (jews and the US) are not only invading their territory, they are conquering it. And there is nothing they can do to stop it. Short of terrorism. And just like Al Qaeda, after 9/11 millions of Americans were asking 'why are they so full of hate', the same thing people ask about the Tea Party movement. Where is all this hate coming from? It is because the motives are the same. People who feel they are the true and entitled members of their society feel the 'others' are invading their societies and taking them over. And they feel impotent to stop it.

The tea bag movement is guaranteed to descend into terrorism. The same way Muslim fundamentalism and the KKK descended into terrorism. It has only existed a year, and they are already forming militias.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100412/ap_on_re_us/us_tea_party_militia

OKLAHOMA CITY – Frustrated by recent political setbacks, tea party leaders and some conservative members of the Oklahoma Legislature say they would like to create a new volunteer militia to help defend against what they believe are improper federal infringements on state sovereignty.

Tea party movement leaders say they've discussed the idea with several supportive lawmakers and hope to get legislation next year to recognize a new volunteer force. They say the unit would not resemble militia groups that have been raided for allegedly plotting attacks on law enforcement officers.

"Is it scary? It sure is," said tea party leader Al Gerhart of Oklahoma City, who heads an umbrella group of tea party factions called the Oklahoma Constitutional Alliance. "But when do the states stop rolling over for the federal government?"








If it takes a whole year to reach a point where openly forming militias (what they are doing on OK is trying to form an armed squad with no purpose other than to intimidate the federal government. Aka terrorism) what will 5 more years bring?

[mistertrickster]

32. Good analysis, thank you. nt

[ismnotwasm]

34. Exactly

Thank you.

[depakid]

30. It all goes back to racism

Bob Cesca published several insightful pieces in the Huffington Post on point:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/the-tea-party-is-all-abou_b_484229.html

Part 2:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/the-tea-party-is-all-abou_b_493929.html

[handmade34]

31. good article

Cesca's article tells one (tea party protester) woman's story, "...She remembers her years working in federal housing programs, watching government lift struggling families with job training and education. She beams at the memory of helping a Vietnamese woman get into junior college.

But all that was before the Great Recession and the bank bailouts, before Barack Obama took the White House by promising sweeping change on multiple fronts, before her son lost his job and his house. Mrs. Stout said she awoke to see Washington as a threat, a place where crisis is manipulated -- even manufactured -- by both parties to grab power..."

What I see is a group of older white people who are fine with diversity as long as they are the ones overseeing the game... as long as they are the ones helping the 'poor, people of color'... as long as they are on top and in control... these people don't understand cooperation and the concept that we as a country are only as well off as the least of us.

[NotThisTime]

33. Don't forget to add "Their own stupidity"