I was in Washington, DC, on 9-12-2009 and these writers are drinking koolaid spiked with marijuana.
This was NOT like DC!
THIS WAS DC!
Posted on 02/25/2010 1:03:53 PM PST by Second Amendment First
Neither "average Americans," as they like to portray themselves, nor trailer-park "Deliverance" throwbacks, as their lefty detractors would have us believe, tea partyers are more highly educated and wealthier than the rest of America. Nearly 75% are college educated, and two-thirds earn more than $50,000.
More likely to be white and male than the general population, tea partyers also skew toward middle age or older. That's the tell. Most came of age in the 1960s, an era distinguished by widespread disrespect for government. In their wonder years, they learned that politics was about protesting the Establishment and shouting down the Man. No wonder they're doing that now.
The tea party is a harbinger of midlife crisis, not political crisis. For men of a certain age, it offers a counterculture experience familiar from adolescence -- underground radio, esoteric tracts, consciousness-raising teach-ins and rallies replete with extroverted behavior to shock the squares -- all paid for with ample cash.
The partyers are essentially replaying the '60s protest paradigm. (We're aging boomers ourselves, so we know it when we see it.) They fancy themselves the vanguard of a revolution, when in fact they are typical self-absorbed, privileged children used to having their way -- now -- and uninhibited about complaining loudly when they don't. It's the same demographic Spiro Agnew called "an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals."
In a flashback of "turn on, tune in, drop out," the partyers reject mainstream culture, don the equivalent of Che T-shirts that say "Don't Tread on Me," and join sects with trippy names like Oath Keepers, Patriotic Resistance and Freedom Force. Instead of getting themselves "back to the garden," they get off the grid and, like the Bill Ayers crew, indulge in fantasies about armed rebellion against the establishment.
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What a bunch of hooey. Where was this comparison when the anti-war idiots code pink and the sheehan hag were in the news constantly? Now we are the sixties radicals? These rat consultants must be hitting the medical maryjane pretty hard.
“”””Most came of age in the 1960s, an era distinguished by widespread disrespect for government.”””””
Yeah.... hippes and pinkos are republican. Got it.
Minimize it all you want lefties!....We are going to bury you!
That’s so true. The number of baby boomers who were getting stoned from reading the Constitution in the 60’s are too numerous to count.
“nor trailer-park ‘Deliverance’ throwbacks”
People who live in trailers and hillbillies are a world apart. Trailer parks exist within civilization.
Not RELIVING the 60’s... just using the 60’s TACTICS against the Hippies that originally used the “60’s TACTICS”
And they just CAN NOT STAND IT!!!!
LOL
We grew up, got jobs and became American patriots.
They grew stupid, couldn't work a job if it was given to them and they became everything BUT an American.
Stuff it, Spencer and Ellis.
LOL...it was the "hippie" left that was protesting...not the conservative right.
And since when is "shouting down the man" synonymous with calling for a return to the US Constitution? These idiots are even more dishonest than the left they out for lying about Tea Partiers.
>>>>‘Deliverance’ throwbacks”<<<<<
Reckon this lady would ever call someone “Ghetto, ‘Boyz n da Hood’ throwbacks”?
Of course not. That would be racist.
Only three possibilities explain this level of abject stupidity and cluelessness: 1) purposeful and overt lying and propaganda designed solely to suggest the Tea Partiers are something they are not, 2) unbelieveably ignorant editorial writers, or 3) both.
If the Tea Party participants were truly indicative of the “throwbacks of the 60’s”, the state-run media would be its biggest backers rather than continuously deriding them.
And I will bet that more Tea Partiers served than these liberal pukes.
The authors: Jim Spencer and Curtis Ellis are Democratic political consultants based in Boston and New York, respectively.
And, apparently have made one too many acid trips!
The “Man” now is the same group of commie lefties who protested during the 60’s. The protestors now are the freedom loving conservatives of the 60’s, the article has it completely backward.
IF most tea partiers are boomers, and you couldn’t prove it by me at the march on 9/12, it would be because we got to read history before it was rewritten and we were taught that the Constitution as it stood was the lifeblood of what made the US great.
Argghhh! We Boomers are blamed for everything! What next... sun spots, acne, power outages, burned cookies, fire ants?? Do people realize just how small a percentage of the Boomers were hippies or radicals? The vast majority of us were just average teenagers and went to school, etc.
Who do they think is paying all the taxes that is supporting their glorious bloated government? Boomers are certainly not going to receive the benefits from all the taxes we have paid into the system. We are going to be left holding an empty bag.
This piece is amusing from one standpoint - the mdiea adored anti-government hippies in the 60s, but now anti-government folks are just a bunch of spoiled brats. Leftists are such hypocrites.
No ! We are the ones who were standing on the sidelines laughing at that hippie trash!!!
If they really hate something, it's really good for the country.
THIS WAS DC!
Right, guys, you are describing most of the professors in the universities and most of congress. The rest of us were busy making our way in life, fighting for our country, going to church and saluting the flag!
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