Posted on 06/17/2010 4:34:39 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
The seething anger that seems to be an indigenous aspect of the Tea Party movement arises, I think, at the very place where politics and metaphysics meet, where metaphysical sentiment becomes political belief. More than their political ideas, it is the anger of Tea Party members that is already reshaping our political landscape. As Jeff Zeleny reported last Monday in The Times, the vast majority of House Democrats are now avoiding holding town-hall-style forums — just as you might sidestep an enraged, jilted lover on a subway platform — out of fear of confronting the incubus of Tea Party rage that routed last summer’s meetings. This fear-driven avoidance is, Zeleny stated, bringing the time-honored tradition of the political meeting to the brink of extinction.
It would be comforting if a clear political diagnosis of the Tea Party movement were available — if we knew precisely what political events had inspired the fierce anger that pervades its meetings and rallies, what policy proposals its backers advocate, and, most obviously, what political ideals and values are orienting its members.
Of course, some things can be said, and have been said by commentators, under each of these headings. The bailout of Wall Street, the provision of government assistance to homeowners who cannot afford to pay their mortgages, the pursuit of health care reform and, as a cumulative sign of untoward government expansion, the mounting budget deficit are all routinely cited as precipitating events. I leave aside the election of a — “foreign-born” — African-American to the presidency.
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And the left was a model of peaceful reflection and thought during the Bush administration.
These people are clinically insane.
“I leave aside the election of a — “foreign-born” — African-American to the presidency.”
Leave aside what matters the most? That’s a foolish analysis. Shouldn’t anybody be quite reasonably angry that our President violated the constitution by running for office as a non-natural-citizen (and possibly not even a citizen at all)? This is a very big part of what’s riling up the tea parties.
The United State’s current administration with the help of the Democrat majority in both houses of Congress are out to destroy the private sector economy and end America’s economic and military superpower status that keeps us safe and free.
Why are people that love America as the champion of individual Freedom and Liberty angry?
Some people must be pretending to not get it.
OK, so the author of this blog is a philosophy professor and author of 5 books not read outside of effete circles.
His particular error is to state that the ‘tea party’ has no concrete ideas, cannot define what it wants, and is acting like an angry, illogical jilted lover.
to wit: “In truth, there is nothing that the Tea Party movement wants; terrifyingly, it wants nothing. Lilla calls the Tea Party “Jacobins”; I would urge that they are nihilists. To date, the Tea Party has committed only the minor, almost atmospheric violences of propagating falsehoods, calumny and the disruption of the occasions for political speech — the last already to great and distorting effect. But if their nihilistic rage is deprived of interrupting political meetings as an outlet, where might it now go? With such rage driving the Tea Party, might we anticipate this atmospheric violence becoming actual violence, becoming what Hegel called, referring to the original Jacobins’ fantasy of total freedom, “a fury of destruction”? There is indeed something not just disturbing, but frightening, in the anger of the Tea Party.”
He is MIGHTILY un-perceptive if he cannot infer or read what the tea party is about and for.
This was written by someone with a disordered mind, IMO. Given knowledge of the failed stimulus packages, the socialization of health care, rhetoric instead of tangible actions in response to the uncapped oil well, country debt approaching 100% of GDP, generations saddled with debt, and gross failure and negligence in carrying out the will of the people, one cannot possibly wonder what is making voters angry, not just tea party members!
I could give a s**t if they call me angry. I AM. I am angry at these evil Marxist bastards trying to destroy what has been the greatest country in the history of the world. They are evil and need to be destroyed.
But it’s all good.
We all know that the disgust is real and crosses demographics and party lines. If the Dums want to ignore it and instead appear aloof and out of touch with their constituents while they waste billions of taxpayer dollars, that’s fine. Please don’t wake them up.
The Dums are going to lose 60 House seats this November, one of which will be NY20.
Amen.
Its the spending!!!!
“It would be comforting if a clear political diagnosis of the Tea Party movement were available — if we knew precisely what political events had inspired the fierce anger that pervades its meetings and rallies, what policy proposals its backers advocate, and, most obviously, what political ideals and values are orienting its members”
Is the author blind, deaf AND plum dumb??? Where has he been living for the last couple years.... under a rock?
Can such staggering idiocy call itself ‘journalism’?
You can hardly hit the net, watch the news or look at a newspaper without a Tea Party member’s ABJECTLY unambiguous poster staring you in the face. AND these posters are NOT subtle.
“It would be comforting if a clear political diagnosis of the Tea Party movement were available — if we knew precisely what political events had inspired the fierce anger that pervades its meetings and rallies, what policy proposals its backers advocate, and, most obviously, what political ideals and values are orienting its members”
Is the author blind, deaf AND plum dumb??? Where has he been living for the last couple years.... under a rock?
Can such staggering idiocy call itself ‘journalism’?
You can hardly hit the net, watch the news or look at a newspaper without a Tea Party member’s ABJECTLY unambiguous poster staring you in the face. AND these posters are NOT subtle.
“Amen” nails it. To me it’s simple. Socialists don’t believe in God, can’t believe in God, refuse to believe in God and therefore, don’t understand those who do. Oh, and as to why we’re angry: personally, the anger started when elected officials announced they would vote for legislation they hadn’t read.
Actually the major reason is right there in the name of the name of the TEA Party.
Taxed
Enough
Already
Odd I read what he has written and ponder,
What is he afraid of? Why is it terrifying to him that the Tea Party wants nothing of the government, but our Freedom?
For a group of people to seek to have nothing from the government is terrifying.
I’m not angry, I’m filled with focused resolve!
> This was written by someone with a disordered mind, IMO.
I think he’s just an ivory tower pinhead.
The violent and outrageous outbursts of the Left, the outrages of Code Pink, including the “We support our troops when they shoot their officers” signs and slogans, are below this pinhead’s radar.
I’m with you. They need to be sent straight back to the pits of hell from whence they came...
And as everybody knows, you can't fix stupid. Take the NY Times as an object lesson of what happens, when you have willful blindness. It's not a pretty sight.
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