I had promised this article a while ago, but so much more material is given to me day after day that I have to take everything into account. Word to Rand Paul and Sharron Angle. But what better day than Independence Day to expose the Tea Party for what it really is?

Taxes, taxes, taxes. Socialist Obama (who wasn’t born in this country and still hasn’t shown us his birth certificate) has a communist plot to destroy this nation!! This is exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany! GASP!! We must rise up and fight for our rights! Take back our country! Gather your armies!

All theatrics aside, I don’t think I have to go into detail about who the Tea Party is and what they’re for. We all hate big government, but why no protests against George W. Bush’s big government? We hate seeing high taxes, but Bush hella raised taxes. Those teabagger folks (and you gotta keep a straight face calling them that) were silent as hell back then. But now that we have the first African-American president, all of a sudden it’s a problem? What about the laws surrounding marriage and divorce, specifically child support and alimony? Those are examples of government at its biggest. Futhermore, since the Tea Party seems to be so against people getting free government handouts, why no talk about Nadya Suleman (the “OctoMom”) pimping the welfare system?

Let’s just cut to the chase: The Tea Party are nothing more than a bunch of people who follow political propaganda planted into the media by big corporations. You know, the ones who got us into this mess. The multi-billionaires who don’t pay their taxes. All the teabaggers do is troll endlessly against people who oppose the special interests. Government spending is the least of our worries. The rich elite have special loopholes that aren’t available to the rest of us. Those loopholes enable them to get around paying their taxes. And guess who gets stuck with the bill? You guessed it, the rest of us. That’s why our taxes get high. It’s not (entirely) Obama’s fault. When our state budgets get slashed (especially in the education departments), look at who’s sitting on huge wads of cash while our economy suffers. Those people have lots of money, clout, and MEDIA INFLUENCE. Cue the Fox News Channel. Cue wingnut radio pundits like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck pimping people’s ignorance and blind anger. When something is repeated over and over and over in the media, people tend to believe what’s said loudly enough. The rich bigwigs couldn’t be happier. Not to mention the fat paychecks these fear-mongerers get from their ever-so-paranoid followers. Then their sponsors sell them gold.

The Tea Party folks are being used and they don’t even realize it. When Wall Street steals money from us, when BP spills oil into our oceans, when racist politicians draft discriminatory legislation in states like Arizona, Texas, and Oklahoma, when the greedy corporations steal money from us, they put that money into the political machine that raises anger in the wrong direction. That’s why you get people who would rather defend Wall Street and BP than the poor people who are suffering every day.

The teabaggers say big government is so bad. They don’t want to see redistribution of wealth. They defend free market laissez-faire capitalism. To translate: Rather than big government, they want to see big corporations. They’re against socialism, but they love corporatism. Don’t raise taxes for anyone! (Especially not the rich!) As far as the ones suffering from a poor economy, who need more government programs (such as unemployment benefits), let them suffer! It’s socialistic to help them!

I could go on and on about the Tea Party, but I just wanted to make a clear point here. It’s time we learn what the Tea Party is really about. The more we learn about them, the more we see how irrelevant they really are. And the people are finally starting to realize it. Do not feed the trolls.

JC

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