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.
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.
Actually the major reason is right there in the name of the name of the TEA Party.
Taxed
Enough
Already
I’m not angry, I’m filled with focused resolve!
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.
When a Government fears the People there is LIBERTY !!
Let me ‘splain something to the author who can’t understand why the Tea Party is so angry:
For DECADES, conservatives have politely taken steps back as the collectivist (fascist/communist, take your pick) usurped our freedoms and gave government more and more intrusive power into our everyday lives, stepping inevitably to the place where “that which is not prohibited is required”. The majority of these usurpations were accomplished not by the will of the people, either, but through the unelected and unaccountable court system.
We took steps backward out of civility, out of the inherent “live and let live” beliefs of the right.
We just noticed the cliff behind us. There are no more steps back in the name of civility.
So, Mr Author who can’t understand the anger, it’s not any recent, current policy, nor is it that “there’s a black man (gasp) in the White House”. As an aside, imagine putting a Keyes, Sowell, or W.E. Williams in the White House and see how angry (and racist?) the left would be.
It’s the culmination of the erosion of liberty and the usurpation of our freedom by your nanny state that has made us angry. We’ve had enough. We’re reaching for the ballot box, possibly for the last time before we move on to the next box of freedom.
You’ve been warned.
Proof positive that there is none so blind as he who will not see.
(Not you, Lurked - the author of the article posted.)
They really don’t get it.
Impressive that the “progressive” brain trust has advanced their pseudo-intellectual agitprop over the past 20 years from “Angry White Male” to “Angry White Tea Party” ...
Somehow, the author doesn’t remember what happened after the Seven Years’ War when the British tried to impose taxes on American colonists to pay for that war—the result was debacle after debacle the ended with the American Revolution.
This writer is another completely clueless member of the MSM. He also might want to look up metaphysics and find out what it really means.