On Mar 10, 7:23?am, George wrote:
I'm pretty sure that the more educated among the Tea Party folks have
just as much contempt for low income Whites as they do for low income
Blacks and Latinos. The Tea Party is all about cutting taxes for rich
people and cutting services that benefit non-rich people. They are
the extreme economic "conservatives" of the Republican Party who want
to dismantle as much of the government as they can. Sure, for the
most part they ally themselves with the social conservatives and the
racists (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy ), and in
fact the candidates they run are nearly uniformly anti-choice. They
enjoy the support of nearly all the Right-wing nutcases like the
"Birthers." The Tea Party is the modern manifestation of the John
Birch Society. The Tea Party rejects in principle nearly every
Progressive change, from Theodore Roosevelt's "Square Deal," through
FDR's "New Deal," and LBJ's "Great Society." They reject labor union
rights, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, minimum wage laws, worker
protections, environmental protections.
If a working class person could be stupid enough to be gung-ho for
that sort of agenda, how can you think that (s)he wouldn't also be
stupid enough to be racist? We're expected to believe that a movement
that shares pretty much every other value with the late Senator Jesse
Helms* doesn't derive a good portion of its support from racist
Whites? Really?
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms
--Bryan
