The New York Times is apparently terrified that the Tea Party movement isn’t turning out to be the cartoon depiction of gap-toothed Klan wannabe’s that they thought it was. They are taking seriously….sort of. I mean, they still try to spin it as a way to decimate the political right, and they include a silly quote from some nobody who says that it’s all based on racism. But at least they are beginning to recognize that it’s not all Republican Astroturf.
Largely they blame Glenn Beck for the whole thing. (I'm sure Glenn Beck is thrilled about that.) For a window into how the elite’s view Beck you should watch Bill O’Reilly interview Jon Stewart. In it, Stewart claimed that Beck was a ‘shill for the new movement’, as if all those tea party people wouldn’t know what to complain about if it weren’t for Beck and his TV show.
This isn’t him ignoring the truth, it’s him missing it for lack of interest. When you operate from the belief that people are too stupid to run their own affairs, like Stewart and the coastal elites do, it never occurs to you that there might be a group of people out there who have all privately reached the same conclusions and were only waiting for someone like Beck to give them a megaphone. That’s what’s actually happened. The tea party is a group that has been systematically ignored, and now they’re finally asserting their voice.
This is what a real grass roots movement looks like. It has no money, and no centralized authority, and no clearly defined bullet points for media consumption. But in this case at least, it does have principles, and those are pretty easy to find.
My buddy Jose used to laugh like hell every time I reached into my bag during a debate and pull out a mini copy of the US constitution. It seemed unreal to him that I would find that document so important that I’d go to the trouble of carrying one around. But to me, it was the roots of everything. It was literally ‘the law of the land’, and as a staunch second amendment advocate I found it the best way to refute the standard liberals lies.
Those are the principles of the 'new movement'. the government that has served the interests of the liberal elites does all kind fo things that it has no authority to do. We want it to stop, and we're prepared to make it do so. And if the coastal elites want to understand what’s happening in the Petri dish where they’ve put the tea parties, they might want to think about looking at that document as well. That’s what it’s really about. Those are the ideas that we’ve all embraced on our own. We didn’t need Glenn Beck to read them to us, but we appreciate that he feels the same way we do.
We are not, and have never been, the brainless drones you believe us to be. But you’ve been married to that particular fiction for so long that it’s unlikely we’ll convince you otherwise. We know that you need to think of us as stupid so you can imagine yourselves as smart, and we don’t really mind that you feel that way. The truth is, we just want you and your bloated plutocracy to leave us alone. Do that… and we’ll all get along fine. Don't and... well ... I'm convinced that you will ...eventually.
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