Okay. So, the basic gist of the Tea Party is that they are an anti-establishment organization bent on extreme reformation of the government.
Are these people really the voice of America, or are they the mouthpieces of a mere handful who are pouring gasoline on a hornet's nest? I mean, the refer to themselves as anti-establishment, which to me reads as 'anarchistic'. Do they even really believe in the Bill of Rights or the Constitution, or do they feel that those should be struck from the history pages and rewritten to suit their aims?
Particularly troubling for me is how some of my shipmates here seem to resonate with, what I feel is, some of their more ridiculous calls. One in particular has taken on a mindset of economic darwinism that is simply insidious - he doesn't care that only the richest people in America made money off of the recession and that everyone was fooled into thinking that the housing lending boom was a good deal, even if that was a con in and of itself.
The calls against things like Obama's Health Care Reform, doing away with Social Security, maintaining Bush's tax cuts... It makes me wonder if these people are really thinking out what they are talking about.
In essence, they simply trouble me, far more than the Republican ultra-rightist movement because then it would just be a case of politicians doing what they do. But here it's the people in general and I am worried that they are really going to try and tear the Nation apart.
Are these people really the voice of America, or are they the mouthpieces of a mere handful who are pouring gasoline on a hornet's nest? I mean, the refer to themselves as anti-establishment, which to me reads as 'anarchistic'. Do they even really believe in the Bill of Rights or the Constitution, or do they feel that those should be struck from the history pages and rewritten to suit their aims?
Particularly troubling for me is how some of my shipmates here seem to resonate with, what I feel is, some of their more ridiculous calls. One in particular has taken on a mindset of economic darwinism that is simply insidious - he doesn't care that only the richest people in America made money off of the recession and that everyone was fooled into thinking that the housing lending boom was a good deal, even if that was a con in and of itself.
The calls against things like Obama's Health Care Reform, doing away with Social Security, maintaining Bush's tax cuts... It makes me wonder if these people are really thinking out what they are talking about.
In essence, they simply trouble me, far more than the Republican ultra-rightist movement because then it would just be a case of politicians doing what they do. But here it's the people in general and I am worried that they are really going to try and tear the Nation apart.