TEABAGGERS OF THE WORLD UNITE

We can no longer laugh at teabaggers, call them Clansmen or Gun crazed Liberterians. We need a rainbow coalition of all dissident groups or we aren't gonna pull this Fascist White House down. I'm sure that you wise political strategists will see the wisdom in that plan.   -- http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/01/dont-ridicule-the-tea-baggers-recruit-them/

Recently I asked my smart pal Tim, "aren't liberal progressives similar to teabaggers? Don't we have much the
same complaints? High taxes, too much war going on resulting in our living like Ghetto Chinese? What is the diff. to me if teabagger Sarah Palin can see Russia from her porch and Glen Beck wants pea pickin' mex immigrant  webacks turned away from the fields? We both want lower taxes. I can see their ungenerous spirit when I hear there's gonna be no cash for single mothers, no more welfare recipients at all, no Section 8 low cost homes with rent control for single parents & geriatrics, leaving all kinds of poor people running around starving, freezing to death, but when they have to take in families or stumble on corpses outside the Ritz they'll see the light. When they get mugged by a ten year old with a pistol they may discard their anti-poverty line of thinking.  And I can see why the NRA teabaggers demand the FREEDOM to carry HEAT, times are getting tougher even with the Ersatz Democrat President on board. A lot of liberterian prejudices and fears seem odious to me, a tree hugging single mother who only launched my four kids cuz of welfare, but I believe that I can put those little animosities aside and join them in picketing this creepy government. The question is, Can they get over us?  Shouldn't we both make concessions so we can have a coalition with each other? Just to get some quorum numbers going?"

Tim the brainoid answered:  "I'd check out the composition of the crowds at "teabag" protests and the recent "Teabag" Convention in Nashville.   They're almost unanimously white and late-middle, to senior age.   They cheer loudly when real racists like Tom Tancredo blather on about a "poll test," because that's what got Obama elected.
 So they're not attracting anyone of color, nor very many people under 50.Their message, as you point out is very, very simplified.  Hey, low taxes are great, but don't we have to have services like adequate funding for the Fire and Police and public schools?  All that "socialist" stuff they rant on about?  How about funding for upkeep on infrastructure?    Ya know, if we'd eliminate about 3/4 of the money that goes to the Pentagon, we'd probably be able to lower taxes to where it'd be easy for all of us AND we'd have enough to do the things we need to do.

I doubt that I could find a lot of common ground with Tom Tancredo or Sarah Palin or Glen Beck.  These folks deal in very little that's true and when they do, they twist it to meet their needs.

My thinking is we're going to have a big shake-up in our politics and maybe even our entire political system.  It just can't go on like it is.  It's really, really bad when two or three Senators can shut down really important legislation for 275 million other people.

And Obama's no leader.   Hell, I have to say that I sort of admire the way Ah-nuld has matured in office.  He's had to face reality and isn't afraid to call fellow Republicans out for their intransigence.  Even so, CA is going down, financially.  And that's real bad news for the rest of the country.

My answer then, is I don't think that right now -- at this exact moment in time -- the progressives and teabaggers have much in common except to say that they've trusted this way of governance up to now and I think some of us and some of them are waking up to the fact that it needs fixing -- and fast!"

If the two radical factions keep on fighting each other, we both stay in MISERY VILLE!. WE NEED a coalition, a quorum, a broad spectrum unity. College kids, seniors, blacks, Latinos, the full Monte. Because what else could break the grip of the DOCTORS/ HOSPITALS HMO's on soaring MEDICAL COSTS and HEALTH CARE? Americans are living in the only western or modern nation in the world without actual public healthcare and without free college for those who wish it. We've got ENDLESS TAXES, our life blood extracted from us... the 'take' growing every day. We've got city and state penalties, fees, licenses, prohibitions, up the wazoo, ( See THE PENALTIES CITIES LEVY ON US.) And college tuition growing 300% in one decade. So they're scrimping bigtime on us, taking our money and disappearing it into the IRAQ VOID. They're not investing it into anything productive for the country so our nation is effectively bankrupt with an addiction to war. Think about all that. THE chickens really have come home to roost for us. WE LET this happen by a total dearth of any kind of activism. (A few kids afraid of the draft did get active during Vietnam, but that's almost the entirety of it) "Good men stood by and did nothing." The point being, we are not good men!

 A fraction of the funds used to plunder and destroy weaker countries (which tempted our oligarchs as they had desirable resources like VIET NAM which was and is swimming in OIL) would pay scholarships for every kid in America and that change alone could have made America a first rate country again. The politicians are all profiteering, growing money trees off their elected office desk. See CORRUPT SENATORS, STEALING.

WAR TOY MANUFACTURERS running Gov/ military off its budget rails as cronies who pay into election campaigns isn't new....(Ike called it "UNDUE INFLUENCE" he meant buying POLS. But it's just much worse in AMERICA than it ever was before.) Instead of bailing out thieves and Wall Street criminals and defunct Detroit car corps, imagine an EDUCATIONAL FUND that would have provided more than enough cash to send all the teens in America into the best of their career abilities...producing a fantastic economy & job infrastructure at home and the finest healthcare system in the world.

Now, we're staring a nation of Burger flippers in the face, mindless unemployed idiots kids who have to live at home and drive their parents crazy.. We're staring mandated healthcare in the face, 6500$ a year per person and jail plus fine if you can't afford it. http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/constitution/2678-senators-call-healthcare-bill-unconstitutional

Sure it's unconstitional! But they're doing it to us. Why? Because they CAN. Care to pass me a teabag? I don't care if Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin ARE in the back of the boat, we are all suffering this runaway White House, we need people on board, we need a quorum. PASS THE DAMN TEABAG!
And let's JOIN HANDS and have a REVOLUTION!

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