A left-winger's ranting on America, religion, capitalism and pie.

Just a few mini-rants between classes on the self-designated “revolutionaries”. I’m getting sick of these guys. The media’s afraid of being called liberal, as usual, and is playing it safe and not calling Tea Partiers out. Instead they’re covering them like they’re a legitimate "grassroots" organization and declaring that they are in fact “battling for the soul of the country”. What?

The slogan of Tea Party Express’ third tour is "Just Vote Them Out."

The problem being, of course, these are people who are upset because they didn’t win the vote.

It’s time to reduce the size of government, honor the Constitution and return to fiscal responsibility in Washington.

They were singing a whole different tune when Bush was pushing the limits of what the federal government could do to citizen’s rights, and they have no respect for the Bill of Rights (and no recognition of the Constitution and how it was formed to protect elitist interests), and they supported a candidate who supported the bailouts.

Fueled by anger at the government and fear of where the country was headed, it grew from dozens to hundreds of loosely linked groups.

It was formed by corporate sponsorship, actually.

Old, white, and mired by a false patriotic history, the Tea Partiers paint themselves as "Revolutionaries" just because they are protesting what they vote against. The only thing radical about them has been their extreme paranoia and willingness to use racism and violence to get what they want. These are old folks scared by even the tiniest movement towards not-really-socialism. Sporting slogans like “dissent is patriotic”, these “revolutionaries” hissed at anyone who so much as didn’t wear a flag pin, or, worse, actually spoke up against the Bush administration. These “revolutionaries” protest debt and taxes when they’re baby boomers who can thank faux-socialism for their benefits. They can thank taxes for having clean water,

What sickens me is that anti-government activism and philosophies are legitimate and deserve more public consideration. Tea Partiers are making government a left-wing thing, and anti-government a right-wing thing, when that isn’t the case at all. They’re embarrassing anyone who has ever argued against having a government, or a strong government, or mentioned the virtues or revolution or dissent. You know, like we’ve been doing the eight years Bush was in charge and are still doing?