"Remember the good old days? Way back before most of us were born, I think, when everything was better? Where the rule of law wasn't some patriarchal bureaucracy, but rather a toothless drunk with the itchiest trigger finger? When the concept of global ownership by white Christians was divine providence and irrefutable? When someone with skin color darker than a paper bag was still 3/5 a human being, rather than some slightly larger fraction I cant even compute? When 'big' government didn't interfere with 'small' business and kept to the things they know best, like legislating morality. " says Ronald Welsh, a Tea Bagging advocate.
"I remember." Ron continues "I remember what I've seen on TV about those times, and I want them back, for America. We need to restore honor to this country. The type of honor that isn't ashamed to give their wife a black eye. The type of honor that proudly kicks your coon ass to the back of the bus. The type of honor that won't hesitate to mobilize the national guard to shoot some smart-ass college kids. That's the kind of honor the Tea Party stands for."
"I remember." Ron continues "I remember what I've seen on TV about those times, and I want them back, for America. We need to restore honor to this country. The type of honor that isn't ashamed to give their wife a black eye. The type of honor that proudly kicks your coon ass to the back of the bus. The type of honor that won't hesitate to mobilize the national guard to shoot some smart-ass college kids. That's the kind of honor the Tea Party stands for."
Harping on perennial sticking-points like taxation with relentless spewdom of vitriolic rhetoric towards predictable scapegoats, the Tea Party's momentum measures it's success in regression, not progression. Anyone with access to the Internet can see that 55% of the country's income is spent on 'defense', and those same savvy fact-seekers can also quickly deduce that 'defense' is a misnomer. It also requires far less effort and a much lower level of comprehension to blame any number of common targets such as immigrants, minorities, and the poor for societal ills largely created by the very same entities that fund the Tea Party movement.
It all seems so stupid, right? Well, it is. It's unwittingly hypocritical. Nevertheless, that shouldn't dissuade anyone from taking an interest in the shameless circus of frighteningly ignorant candidates who refute knowledge in defense of faith, rather than embracing it. The whole charade begs to be ignored for its utter lack of credibility, but frankly, who can resist mocking it-even though the perils are quite real, and all too possible.
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