I find the "Real America" Tea Party talk not only stupid, but offensive

[Ardent15]

As a resident of a major, multicultural metropolitan area, the "Real America" seems to me to be a land of racism, bigotry, and proud ignorance, at least the "Real America" Hannity, Beck, and Palin like to talk about.

It's reflexive nativism and xenophobia, pure and simple. What's worse, there are plenty of people in so-called "Real America" who are good people who want nothing to do with the Tea Party movement.

Anyone else feel this way?

[wtmusic]

1. The Real America voted for the Real President. nt

[Deep13]

7. +1

[tabbycat31]

24. +2

[Catshrink]

2. Of course.

Anyone who THINKS would.

[cbdo2007]

3. I'm not sure why you take them so seriously. They're just some fringe

group who doesn't know any facts about anything and just likes to complain.

Just ignore them and they'll fade out like all of the fringe groups do.

[Ardent15]

4. 25-30 percent of America isn't "fringe" I'm afraid

[cbdo2007]

17. I'm not sure where you get your figures that 25-30% of Americans belong to the

tea party movement.

[Andy823]

19. True.

But they are dividing daily. Some of the groups are way to radical, and some are obviously racist, yet they all want to make the claim they are "tea party" groups. Some of them are saying Palin is a RINO because she is supporting McCain. Others dropped out of going to the convention this weekend because the organizers were trying to make a profit, as was Palin, and they didn't like that. It's only going to get worse when the racist groups try and promote their candidate, the birtheres theirs, they 9/12 er's theirs, and so on! They will never become organized enough to really become a national group.

Now the good thing is that republicans started this movement, and tried to make it look like a grass roots movement. Now it has taken off and has spawned numerous splinter groups that are crazy as hell. Now instead of rallying the base with this so called movement, they have to contend with these splinter groups putting up their own candidates against republicans. Now in some cases the republicans might get support for the guy they really want, but in many cases they are going to have to contend with tea party candidates taking votes away from republican candidates, an that is going to work well for the republicans!

I think they have created a monster with the tea party groups, and that monster is going to tear them apart!

[cbdo2007]

23. I agree here....

anyone who is paying attention to the tea parties in the news can easily see the fractures and the different groups breaking off and forming their own little sects. These are all signs of them becoming less relevant rather than more dangerous.

[4_TN_TITANS]

22. 600 people meeting here in Nashville =

25-30%?? Even if it is some sort of delegation, it's laughable.

[abelenkpe2]

6. You think they are just fringe?

I hope you are right about that. But teabaggers and libertarians are the scariest thing in the universe to me. Honestly, they are wacko crazy racist bigoted thugs and they cause me a lot of worry. There is no reasoning with them. They are too dogmatic and stupid for a rational conversation.

I hope the fade away.

[cbdo2007]

18. See, even you lumping teabaggers and libertarians together reinforces to me

that the only people worred about the "tea party" are the people on DU. The rest of America sees them as a bunch of people with problems but no solutions.

[abelenkpe2]

25. Teabaggers

get tons of sympathy from Libertarians. Just read some libertarian blogs and their comments sections to get a better picture. Both are a danger in my opinion. Discount them if you like, but they get tons of press. When you talk of the rest of America are you counting FOX viewers? Because they love the teabaggers.

Yes, they are a minority. A loud and dangerous minority. Armed with guns, enjoying lots of press. They scare me.

[sui generis]

5. It's a high school social tactic.

"We" are the majority. We decide. You are losers if you are not with "us".

sic Moral Majority, "mainstream" anything, etc.

[opihimoimoi]

13. The Approach will FAIL ...they project like they know the answers: But forget: We Love America more

than they do...we help America in time of strees...they don't...they divide and whine

No Realistic Plausible plans/ideas cept for "empty language"....

[leftstreet]

8. No, what's STUPID is that the Democrats let this happen

:banghead:

[HughBeaumont]

9. The one commonality that most of them have . . .

. . . seems to be that they're all from very insular areas - small towns, rural locations originally - and they never ventured out of them. Never went away to school (if they sought higher education), never worked with or interacted with any racial/ethnic group outside of their own, have no real activities or hobbies other than watching TV and listening to the radio. Prejudices were passed down from generation to generation. They only saw anecdotal evidence of others "gaming the system" and completely ignored the majority that are struggling.

[Sebastian Doyle]

10. I'm not watching any of this Teabagger shit, but Thom Hartmann just reported something interesting.

Seems that Tom TanKKKredo told his fellow racist lunatics that Obama was only elected because the 1965 civil rights act "did away with literacy tests".

Oh the irony...... if they actually had literacy tests for voting today, there would be a bunch of dumbass white freepers and teabaggers not voting.

I wouldn't go with literacy tests though... just political literacy. Maybe a few simple questions like "Name the three branches of government" or "Who is the current Senate Majority Leader of the United States"?

[Deep13]

11. The "real" America is diverse, progressive and open-minded.

What they call "real" is a right-wing fantasy created in part by Hayes-code Hollywood. When they say they want "their" country back, they mean the up-tight, sexually repressed, white-bread, paranoid, misogynistic, racist, intolerant caricature of the 1950s. I'm happy to say, THAT America is gone forever.

[Ardent15]

12. +1

[Turbineguy]

14. If they were the real America

they would not have to claim to be.

[Archae]

15. It's only the first day, but the tinfoil hats have come out.

Like this twerp.

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201002050039

Internships are "disturbing?"

[KansDem]

16. Thank the likes of Sarah Palin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JgVR6TsbiA

[Gregorian]

20. Proud ignorance.

That's a good one. Like night of the living dead, with attitude.

I was working this morning, and heard an old sex education record on the radio. Yes, kxlu is a great station. And I was filled with this disgust. A man and a woman...and if it's god's will, then that seed turns into a... PUKE. Some middle aged man sounding so smug. It felt like the same kind of people who are anti-choice. Men telling women what they can't do with their bodies. People who don't have experience, telling others what to do. As if they were experts on the subject.

What a confused country. We are so immature. It's sickening to have to watch. And then there's the Tea Potty movement.

[arcadian]

21. Look at this crap, if you feel the need to vomit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc_-L4fyLUo

[Whisp]

26. of course. the 'real' america

is supposed to be uneducated and stupid and easily fooled. These are the people they are going after.
Hopefully the planned Dumbing Down of America hasn't gone so far as to let this blight take hold and infect.

o wait.
it has been a program for decades now, to keep ya dumb. Fortuneately some don't abide by that program.