Soleron said:
The problem is that they are. I believe in the former to a great extent, but the political group that mostly represents them is the Republicans, who the moment they get into power lose all fiscal control and hand out huge subsidies to big business while cutting taxes only for the rich - the exact opposite of what I support. In practice, the Democrats do a better job with the country's finances. Turning up at the protests is in favour of less economic control and more fringe-nutjob Republican policies like tax cuts on a huge deficit. |
I'm no fan of the Republicans, but there is nothing nutty about being pissed off at a party which chides Bush over his recklessness, then promptly begins its own regimen of orgiastic spending - including more of the bailouts for which they'd hammered Bush - right after coming into power. The only incident at a "tea party" that can even remotely be construed as racist was one in which a black protestor was beaten up by white SEIU thugs.
Whatever deficiencies you might find in these particular protestors, I think there's something rather despicable about a media which treats anti-war protests (which are legitimate but have had more than their fair share of insanity), illegal immigrant marches, violent WTO protests, etc. with a respect that sometimes borders on reverence, but regularly tags these folks with as tasteless a term as "teabaggers".
