U.S. constitution gets a warning label - by PeeperStorm
demagogue on 14/6/2010 at 19:09
NYTimes blog explains (
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/the-very-angry-tea-party/?src=me&ref=general) Tea Party anger. Useful for me, anyway, philosophically bent as I am.
I have to admit it's very hard for me to understand how people can be so angry and so directionless at the same time. Usually people are the most upset *at* something. It's not clear these guys are angry *at* anything that exists in the real world.
My experience is that they just feed off each other, so it becomes its own self-contained world of rage separate from political reality, except periodic (& predictable) headlines fitting into pre-made categories which keep fueling the engine to nowhere indefinitely. Really weird phenomenon since it's not actually "politics" in any traditional sense.
CCCToad on 14/6/2010 at 23:21
Quote Posted by demagogue
NYTimes blog explains (
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/the-very-angry-tea-party/?src=me&ref=general) Tea Party anger. Useful for me, anyway, philosophically bent as I am.
I have to admit it's very hard for me to understand how people can be so angry and so directionless at the same time. Usually people are the most upset *at* something. It's not clear these guys are angry *at* anything that exists in the real world.
My explanation is simple (probably oversimplified). The tea party is based on a lot of very legitimate anger at the corruption and elitism of the political (and now financial) establishment, but that rage has been filtered through the sieve of partisan loyalty to produce something that just doesn't amount to anything worthwhile.
In other words, their loyalty to the Republican party prevents them from pointing fingers at quite a few people who deserve their rage. As a result, their rage becomes directionless and illogical.
There's also a pretty big disconnect between the "fox news" tea party and the events organized by actual grassroots organizers. The latter don't seem to get much coverage, especially on Fox News which would rather focus on its own astroturf protests.
Queue on 15/6/2010 at 14:51
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Just wait til you get to the bit where Jefferson says it's totally okay to have a harem full of black ladies. Once you read that, you'll realize why they have to put a warning on the thing.
Ahhhh. The American Dream.
Martin Karne on 16/6/2010 at 02:34
And where is the p0rn part of the Independence texts?
:devil:
demagogue on 16/6/2010 at 04:13
Quote Posted by Martin Karne
And where is the p0rn part of the Independence texts?
:devil:
The part in the Bill of Rights where it's clearly written we have a right to private sex lives and, in clear unmistakable wording it says the government can't stop us from using condoms, having anal homosexual sex, fornicating before marriage, having abortions... I mean it's written right ... o wait ... :erm:
Rug Burn Junky on 16/6/2010 at 16:34
Quote Posted by demagogue
in clear unmistakable wording it says the government can't stop us from using condoms, having anal homosexual sex, fornicating before marriage,
Justice Scalia, do you sodomize your wife?
Starrfall on 16/6/2010 at 20:02
The people surrender nothing, and as they retain everything, they have no need of particular reservations.
demagogue on 17/6/2010 at 02:11
Quote Posted by Rug Burn Junky
Justice Scalia, do you sodomize your wife?
I was there when this happened!*
So awkward and so awesome.
* Just outside the room anyway.
Trappin on 17/6/2010 at 04:36
* Just outside the room anyway.
Class 1 misdemeanor in some states.
