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As long as we let the talking heads put words in our mouths, we will perceive the two “sides” to be diametrically opposed, when it fact we are on the same side and it is the talking heads (both politicians and media) who are our opposition.
It’s time to sit down, face to face, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘teabaggers’
On finding common ground
Ray Stevens. We The People. Anthem of the Teabaggers
As I’ve been saying until I’m hoarse, the teabagger movement is real and growing. This is is their apparent anthem. Rather than sitting on the sidelines snidely guffawing about what a bunch of goobers teabaggers are, I suggest liberals, progressives, and the hard left get off their self-satisfied butts and get involved in the growing [...]
Teabaggers are not the enemy. Common ground does exist
Crooks and Liars says teabaggers are a construct of right-wing operatives, dangerous loonies, and any talk of engaging them or joining together on common issues is idiotic.
They want jobs for sure, but they think that any government which is led by a Democratic politician wants to destroy their freedoms and as we see, take away [...]
Liberals alternately scared of and mocking teabaggers
AmericaBlog, who I often admire, like other liberal blogs just can’t decide whether to ridicule, ignore, or be scared of teabaggers. So they hyperventilate instead.
This is an actual trailer for a new documentary about the Teabaggers. This isn’t a joke. It’s an actual serious documentary taking the Teabaggers seriously. The trailer is bizarre. These people [...]
If the left does not make an effort to organize populist anger then the right will grab it by default
The Blue Voice ponders Jerry Brown, radical politics on both sides of the spectrum, civil liberties, and more in a thoughtful post.
They quote from an interview Jerry Brown did with The Progressive in 1995. Brown makes a crucial point, that militia anger is based on real grievances. The Blue Voice thinks Brown misses the dangerous [...]
Yes, we do have common ground with teabaggers
Why? because they’re angry too at the banksters and corptocracy that increasingly controls politics in DC as they loot the country. So says Newshoggers, and I completely agree.
While the tea party movement may have some anti-government bigots they are upset about many of the same things as we progressives. In a post this morning I [...]
Chill pills badly needed. Health care activist bites finger off counter-protester
Authorities are searching for a healthcare reform activist today who they said bit off the finger of a 65-year-old counter-demonstrator during a fight at a MoveOn.org rally in Thousand Oaks.
A MoveOn spokersperson issued a tepid statement calling the incident “regrettable” hoping it won’t detract from their political statement. Because of course their political statement is [...]
For those squealing about town hall protesters
Photo via SFist linking to Zombietime (an anonymous hard right photographer who cheerfully and methodically documents the lunacies of the extreme left.)
The left has plenty of loonies too. Some of whom carried signs threatening the life of a president. But such derangement was clearly not the common view of most antiwar protesters. No doubt [...]
If the left doesn’t organize them, the right will
This awesome rant howls about the cluelessness of liberals moaning about health care while wars rage and elites plunder the economy. This also, I must add, includes the maddeningly comatose behavior of the radical left who during this massive crisis of capitalism has been doing precisely nothing.
(I’m not sure who the author is, it doesn’t [...]
On those town hall meetings
Some posts you may have missed here.
My views on the town hall meetings. Attempts at disrupting meetings can easily be stopped by the organizers. The fascist hordes are not massing at the gates. The 60’s were a whole lot crazier than now. The right will push the middle class to the left. We need to [...]
Fascism alert?
Dave Neiwert, researcher and author of books about the far right, in Crooks and Liars
Are we looking at an outbreak of fascist behavior on a large scale?
My own take: Real fascism is always violent. We’re getting some light violence around the edges here, but fascism always openly embraces the ethos of violence, and that’s not [...]
John Rich. They’re Shutting Detroit Down
I’m becoming increasingly annoyed by the elitist, condescending liberal response to the teabaggers. Yeah, the teabagger protests were a bit incoherent and some of the participants are loonies. It was the same way in the early days of the antiwar movement (some say it still is.) I know, I helped organize antiwar protests back [...]
Teabaggers. A sympathetic view
Hank Williams Jr. Red White and Pink-Slip Blues
DJ, who lives in rural Utah, says he knows teabaggers and most of them, if they have politics at all, are Democrats not Republicans, and that they aren’t racist.
I’ve helped organize many antiwar protests. Those who wish to bash us will find the most extreme protesters, those with [...]
Obama is a fascist?
That what’s some of the more deranged teabaggers are saying today. You can also hear the same thing sometimes from the left.
Folks, under real fascism we wouldn’t be having open protests or blogs that comment on politics. Rather, there would be a knock on the door at 4am and you get disappeared and maybe your [...]
