One Of the Problems I Have With Tea Partiers
February 6, 2010 at 6:27 PM Leave a comment
One of the big problems I have with the Tea Partiers is that virtually every single one of them that I’ve seen interviewed on television or read about in the newspaper, on blogs or on tweets, began paying attention to politics sometime during the past year. And it’s not like they dabbled in it before then; they didn’t pay any attention. So as a result, they have no memory of what’s been going on for the last 10, 15, 30 years. They don’t know, for example, that when W. came into office the budget was balanced. They don’t know that Bush kept the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan off the books, and consciously decided to put them on the charge card so he wouldn’t have to deal with any backlash about that huge debt.
And now, in their rush to “educate” themselves, they’re reading by the likes of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and David Horowitz, and they’re watching Fox and listening to Rush. And of course, all those people leave out mention of the disastrous Republican policies.
Democrats had better start shouting — and loudly — about how we got to where we are or we’re going to have a whole group of people — a potentially big group at that — whose only knowledge of history is the propaganda fed to it by radicals on the right. And that is a frightening thing to think about.
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