Back to back stories on NPR this morning:
- People are upset about Toyota’s recall, and want their cars fixed. Thank goodness government regulators finally forced the carmarker into action!
- Teabaggers attracting young voters by warning them of the dangers of government regulators interfering with their lives.
We hate government regulation. Almost as much as we hate the lack of it.
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Lack of government regulation is a rich man’s value. The purpose of government regulation, in America, is largely to protect the poor and middle classes from the rapacity and greed of the wealthy.
That makes poor and middle class people, who support a lack of government regulation, DUPES!
Teabaggers who oppose health care reform, even though most of them will be the primary beneficiaries of health care reform is another example of the electorate being duped.
Poor and middle class Americans who are against mortgage relief for their neighbours, because it’s not fair for their neighbours to get assistance when other home owners have paid their mortgages, not recognizing that when 10% of the homes in your neighbourhood are foreclosed, it affects you, your home values, your town’s economy, and your employment prospects, are also dupes.
It all supports my theory that nothing makes a group of people stupider or more moronic than putting a ballot in their hands and sending them off to a polling booth.
What I’ve noticed about the teabaggers is that they’re long on slogans, and completely lacking on specifics. It’s like their manifesto is a series of bumper stickers or something.
(Love your avatar!)
What is really striking is that they’re contradictory bumper stickers. Reading about this convention is like driving behind a beat-up car with bumper stickers reading “No more taxes!”, “Job for Everyone!”, “My boss is a Jewish carpenter,” and a big Wicca symbol… and the spokesperson complaining about our “socialist” president presided over the purest experiment in socialism in America, Alaska’s Permanent Fund, which is based on the idea that money from Alaskan oil belong to all the people of Alaska.
I am unsure how anybody who is a follower of this goes along with it without their head exploding.
I still smile inwardly every time I hear their name, “Teabaggers.”
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