Tea-baggers are racist-leaning hypocrits who mostly just hate Obama

While I agree with many of the complaints of the tea party people, I don’t want to be associated with what they have made themselves into. There’s plenty of polls out there that try to figure out what the tea party people are like:

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/new-tea-party-poll-they-hate-poor-live

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002529-503544.html

They are basically richer, primarily republican, anti-obama, ¾ of them are self-described conservative, and 89% white. According to this:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002536-503544.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

88% of them disapprove of Obama. They are pissed they lost an election, and have been convinced that they can blame many of their problems on illegals (gee blaming society’s ills on the outcasts, where have I heard that before?)

As a contrast, here is some coverage of the recent massive protest on wall street, which was completely ignored by the mainstream media (even though many more showed up than at many of the tea party protests that got massive coverage):

http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2010/April/30/MarchWallSt-30Apr10.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk37plzE1wA&feature=player_embedded

See all the black people? That is a true cross-section of America, pissed off for the right reasons. I will never associate with an organization that is 89% white. We can argue about whether they are a bunch of racists or not, but the undeniable fact is that there are no black people in the tea parties, and if their motives & ideals were as pure as they like to tell themselves, there would be plenty of other ethnic backgrounds right alongside them.

I don’t think the tea partiers are a bunch of good old Americans who just want a better/smaller government. I think they are a pissy bunch of racist-leaning babies who lost an election and want to tell themselves that Obama invented deficits. Anglo-saxons who are afraid of ‘losing their country to the foreigns’, which I find simply pathetic. Like any white person can claim America is theirs. We are all immigrants, even the native Americans who came across the beiring strait. They obviously don’t care about facts or they would have complained when Bush massively grew the size of the government (hello department of homeland security, 180k employees and a $28B budget). Where were the protests about small government then? Do they care that Bush spied on Americans? Nope. Only the left protested Bush or anything he did. They are hypocrites – they want a big republican government that demands ‘papers, please’ of illegals, but the day a democrat gets elected, it’s back to protesting how big the government is.

They are intellectually bankrupt. They want lower taxes, smaller government, and zero cuts to any social services like medicare. Oh and no deficit. They are willfully ignorant of the impossibility of their demands, because they are primarily just pissed that they lost and the other party won. Bush grew the deficit more than every president combined, but none of them cared then. Cheyney even said ‘reagan proved that deficits don’t matter’. I have no time for people who lie to themselves so they can be righteously angry.

I don’t want to be associated with the left, either. They are 75% as shitty as the conservatives in this country. The left isn’t protesting Obama’s continuation of Bush’s ridiculous policies, or escalating the wars, or the insurance industry hand-out that was the bullshit health care bill. Sure some of us are complaining, but the few pretend-liberal media outlets (NY times, msnbc) ignore and belittle anyone who doesn’t toe the party line. There is only one party in this country, the party that takes bribes and makes up bullshit to pacify the masses. That’s the point the tea partiers would be making, if they were intellectually honest.