artisticsolution wrote:Blaggard wrote:Are all tea party members this ignorant?
I mean I thought the cliché about them all being dumb bible bashing hicks was simply that a cliché but from my experience there is a core of truth to it.
"Obama is killing people and drinking their blood I tell's ya!"
"Er yeah whatever dude."

I live in the US and yes, blaggard, that has been my experience. Except some of them do not use as mean of language as Bob, even so...the basic message is the same. They all think Obama is evil for trying to help the poor. "Dirty rotten bassard...how dare he make medical care easily available to the masses. F'n evil do gooders! "
However, I am not sure it is a racial thing every single time. True, it is racially motivated most of the time...but for some....anyone who wanted a more fair and balanced system would be 'evil' no matter what race.
I will never forget how one of my friends...who is tea party republican...one of the level headed ones...told me a story about how she hated our senator Harry Reid. Then she proceeded to tell me how he helped member of her family by hosting a huge fund raiser on their behalf. I was incredulous and said, "Then why do you hate him?" Then she muttered something about his policies of helping people and how it was going to break america..."
I just don't get it...and to tell you the truth...not one tea party/republican has ever been able to explain their doctrine rationally. If I could even gain a little understanding, I still might disagree, but at least I would understand, I don't know how they can still carry a torch for their line of thinking when time after time they are proven wrong through the years.
I don't get it...
Thanks good to know I think... :S
Ironically I don't really object to the racism so much as the ignorance, I mean I do think racism is a pernicious evil, but far more damaging I think is stupidity and poor education amongst those who profess an interest in politics, and those who hence form lobby groups.
It always amazes me how much power lobby groups wield in the US, but it's not necessarily a bad thing, I mean there are lobby groups who are not bat fuck insane, business affiliated or whatever I presume. :S
Over here if they get so much as a sniff of a lobby group with an agenda that is related to business the money is basically seized and the government get to call foul, there are laws about how parties can obtain funding for example, it can't come from any business vested individual or if it does it must be declared and it must be a sum that indicates it is not a bribe, ie giving Tony Blair 1 billion pounds, and then mysteriously finding a bill before parliament and the lords, (roughly equivalent to the house and senate), that included tax incentives to the person or businesses in question, is clearly bribery and corruption and would lead to criminal proceedings at the very least. Since your system is based on ours, I would have hoped it would be the same but it seems not... It just goes to show money makes the world go around, although on a wonky axis and without much hope of democracy. I suppose we just have to be happy with the fact our respective countries have far less corruption in the West than some countries, and hope that is going to mean when we tick the box on a ballot slip we are not voting in a Montebank. You have to live in hope I suppose, probably why I don't vote, and have only ever done so once as a protest vote.
Democracy I think is the worst of all other systems that have been tried as Winston Churchill opined, sadly it's about as good as it gets...