hyperlexian wrote:
i am horribly uninformed about this. this is embarrassing. i can be pretty arrogant about the areas where i am well-informed... and this is not one of those areas. i can admit when i am ignorant of an issue.
i understand the basics of american politics, but this Tea Party stuff has thrown me for a loop.
i am a canadian. i don't read the newspaper, nor do i watch television news. the closest thing i read to the news is consumerist.com for their consumer stories.
i tried asking my husband about the Tea Party, and he explained it to me somewhat. but he only half-watches the news himself.
anyway. i'm lazy. anybody care to explain some of the background, or why there are such strong opinions about this Tea Party? thank you in advance.
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They're a bunch of reactionaries who blame all of the deficit on Obama's social spending (The war is seldom considered a cause), on immigrants, on Islam, on moral degradation. They like to compare Obama to a Nazi, communist, etc. I think its sick, that it undermines the holocaust, and when they say"liberals did it with bush", I don't remember anyone from the mainstream, liberal media doing it. They do it all the time on Fox News though. Many think he was a secret Muslim and that he wasn't born in this country. You can't argue with them. Like I said, they're reactionaries, and I believe there's a lot of racism behind it.
Plenty of people compared Bush to Hitler and the rise of Nazi Germany, going so far to call 9/11 a false flag like the Reichstag fire during his term... I didn't consider it a fair comparison then, nor do I consider it a fair comparison to Obama today. It's just childish name calling and false connections.
05 Nov 2010, 1:34 pm
