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If Tea Partiers are such deluded fools, why are they doing so well?
By Daniel Hannan
First, Leftie commentators ignored the Tea Party: throughout the summer of 2009, its rallies were barely covered except by Fox. Then, as it grew, they sneered at it: what a lamentable gaggle of rednecks, birthers, truthers, stump-toothed Appalachian mountain men and assorted survivalists. When these laughable Frondistes began to win primaries, pundits assured each other that they had made Republican Party unelectable. Now, with a week to go before polling day, and the GOP comfortably ahead in the polls, columnists have had to come up with a new line. Predictably, they have hit on the argument that Tea Partiers are a bunch of thickos, dupes being manipulated by powerful Right-wing corporations.
There is a classic of the genre in today’s Guardian. George Monbiot describes the Tea Party as “one of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has seen”, and goes on to explain that the poor, deluded saps who turn up to its meetings are puppets on the strings of two wealthy industrialists, Charles and David Koch.
A telling phrase, that, “false consciousness”. It was coined by Friedrich Engels, and became a mainstay of Marxist theory. Marx argued that, because proletarians didn’t always understand their true interests, democracy was open to abuse. Reactionary and bourgeois elements could make the workers think that they wanted one thing, when what they really needed was something else. It was the doctrine of false consciousness which Lenin and, later, Stalin, used to justify their tyranny.
Very few commentators these days consciously long for the return of the USSR. But several cling, Marx-like, to a certain disdain for the electorate: an uneasy sense that, left to themselves, people might vote for lower taxes instead of the kind of eco-correct statism that is in their “real” interest. Lurking behind many of the attacks on the Tea Party is an equivocal attitude to democracy. For the Tea Party is a product of perhaps the most responsive electoral process on Earth: the open primary...
If Tea Partiers are such deluded fools, why are they doing so well?
Because socialists aren't deluded, most are rather quite educated. It's not that their deluded but that they pioneer failed policies of the past.If socialists are such deluded fools why are they doing so well in Europe, and Venezuela, and Thailand etc.
If Tea Partiers are such deluded fools, why are they doing so well?
Hell, we've been filling Congress and the White House with them for years ... :dohWho ever said deluted fools never do well?:lamo
If socialists are such deluded fools why are they doing so well in Europe, and Venezuela, and Thailand etc.
Wait whats this I hear :cups hand to ear: the largest capitalist bust in history occurred in the last 2 years.you dont say.
What else is this? Theres no country in the world that isnt partly socialised.oh em gee!
Daniel Hannan is a writer and journalist, who's also a member of British Parliament, and he really nails it in his latest op-ed in the Telegraph.
If Tea Partiers are such deluded fools, why are they doing so well? – Telegraph Blogs
If socialists are such deluded fools why are they doing so well in Europe, and Venezuela, and Thailand etc.
The Tea Party's remarkable successes so far, are the very reason why the criticism has become so shrill and outlandish.
One word: fear.
If socialists are such deluded fools why are they doing so well in Europe, and Venezuela, and Thailand etc.
The Jonas Brothers did good and had alot of sales. Does that mean that they're music is good? The correct answer is hell no.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win."
-Ghandi
Huge difference between Ghandi and the tea party. Huge.
I know there are many small differences, but what's the huge difference?
isn't Europe burning over austerity measures and Venezeula going through a food shortage?
Why yes Europe is practically Burning to the ground :roll:
Greece and France certainly seem to be in a bit of trouble; England, too, is facing drastic cuts. Iceland.... well the less said about Iceland the better. Germans are getting increasingly irritated with having to foot the bill... so on and so forth.
Europe has engaged in more socialism than we have, which is why they are facing the consequences earlier (though our subsidization of their defense gave them a bit more breathing room). Venezuala, similarly, is dealing with constant energy shortages, food shortages, clean water shortages....
Ghandi was actually working for a real cause. Tea Party members or most incoherent and often factually wrong.
Not only do their candidates often don't know the Constitution (something I linked for Rev a while back), but neither do most of the members.
As it is a large part of their rallying cry, along with cut spending but don't touch my medicare, they are far more factually silly than Ghandi was.
Just being pissed off is no where near the same as having a just cause to work for, and having the intelligence to know the factors involved. If the Tea Party wins, we may all be far worse off than we are. The same could not be said of Ghandi.
Please link to and provide evidence of this claim.
You did? Who are our "Candidates", please stop fibbing.
Again with the dishonesty. Medicare is paid into, I for one would be all for abolishing it, just give me back my money. Talk about silly, your half truths ship sailed that ocean a long time ago,
So make up some bull****, then spout it off as if it's fact. Must be a boo radley post. :thumbs:
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