No, It's not Elitist to Think the Tea-Baggers Are Idiots

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/143930/no%2C_it%27s_not_elitist_to_think_the_tea-baggers_are_idiots/
That's twice... ;-)

Arguing over a silly postage stamp (on a topic that is already 8 years old), I am blocked from yet another "Scarecrow from Oz".

I found this linked article today to be a very accurate representation of this inability to think on ones own, or to be loathe to learn.
Cartoon from Google search


******** Here's the article linked above, in its entirety.

"No. It's not Elitist to Think the Tea-Baggers Are Idiots"
Posted by Oliver Willis, Oliver Willis.com at 8:39 AM on November 13, 2009.


A post over at the Seminal is taking “liberal elitism” to task for not taking the Tea Party people seriously, and that that will lead to the election of Sarah Palin and other such ilk.

To quote our vice president, "malarkey."

While I have long argued that there is too much elitism on the left for my tastes, there’s a wide gulf between holding your nose in the air for no good reason and dumbing yourself down in order to appeal to the lowest common idiotic denominator.
Suck is the case with the Tea Party group and their leaders like Palin.

Far from the liberals in the ’70s who were clearly not responsive enough to the middle class, leading to the rise of Nixon and resentment politics, today’s left has gone to great lengths to be a big tent. So much so that some of our biggest fault lines are internal and don’t involve the Republicans at all. But far from the pre-Clinton great society types, todays liberals understand that without blue collar people on our side we don’t advance as a movement.

The problem is that the vast majority of the issues brought up by the tea party types and Palin are idiotic.
These aren’t people with the traditional lower-middle class concerns of Americans (which is my family background) but instead these are people who largely believe the conspiracy du jour, whether that involves secret armies, the president’s “true” nationality, or Nancy Pelosi’s “death panels” that are set up to pull the plug on Grandma.

While the concerns of many white, middle-class people are worthy causes and should be addressed by liberals (and are), it is not elitism to treat this roving band of conspiracy nuts for the cretins they are or associate with. This would be akin to President Johnson in 1964 undertaking a federal committee to study the mind control powers of fluoridated water. That would be asinine.

Liberals have in the past allowed the ivory tower set to exert too much control over the Democratic party. That resulted in a narrow focus and deserved electoral losses. But the idea that the tea party movement represents any sort of rational discourse deserving of recognition and outreach is absurd.

These are, by and large, the same band of stupid people we have always had in this country, whether they were in favor of submission to the British empire, secession from the union, alliance with Hitler, or decrying the president a “half breed Muslim terrorist”, we owe them no recognition or inclusion in the important discussion about the direction of American society.

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Me again now.
hehehe (I think it was too hot in the kitchen)...

The fact that people repost things, verbatim, (insinuating them as their own), is seamy at best. These things can be found in a thousand other places after one little search.
With these puppets there is an abject, and frightening, refusal to "learn" the truths of anything.
Then to 'demand' respect or submission to their whims, which ironically aren't their own either. Go figure.
(It doesn't work that way kids, and it never will).

"Do unto others"
Having been the subject of hate letters, being called many contemptible names, I have learned to respond exactly how that is given unto me.

There are entries smacking of hatred and bigotry... The Anti-Americanisms abounding, offensive and stinking at best.

Know that such a person is no loss, great or small, to me personally; but knowing that there are such fanatics out there that is alarming unto itself. (The word "RABID" comes to mind). As does "dense" and a few others.
(Oy, talk about negativity, I do not like me like this either). ;-)

Teach your children to always be aware of truth. To simply learn it if they don't know it.
It WILL win in the end.

XOXO
Me

Of particular interest, is the fact that those of you that KNOW me, know also that ANNA WILL NOT BE BULLIED!
Been there, done that; (got a divorce).