Tea Party=R.I.P. America

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell I always get a kick out of conservatives who claim that a spokesperson (Beck, Coulter, Limbaugh, ad nauseum) speaks the "truth." I hear this said, I see it in letters to the editor. And that's why we liberals hate them. In a word: No. What they're really doing is lying, and it just happens to be a lie you agree with. That's fine--you want to live in "I'm Forty-Two Years Old, Flipping Burgers For A Living, Still Living With My Mom, But I Could Get A Date With Salma Hayek If I Could Only Get Her Phone Number Land" that's your business. What really pisses me off is that the mainstream media gives these people credence. Like they're something more than what they are, which is a superlatively small fringe movement. To wit: In a year-end recap, Chris Matthews ranked the Tea Party movement as one of the top ten political stories of the past decade. Please--they have accomplished absolutely nothing--nothing--of importance. Or this: when our less than beloved Governor Granholm gave her final State of the State Address this past month, four hundred Tea Party members showed up to protest. Out of 11 million people who call our great state home, an entire four hundred showed up to protest, and The Detroit Free Press thought this was worthy of an article. For fuck's sake, fifty of us showed up to watch our kids take their Tae Kwan Do testing last week--does that make us a movement, too? Can anyone other than Olbermann and Maddow get this right? The Tea Party movement is bankrolled by corporations and the wealthy who are seeking to ensure that the wealthy get wealthier, and the rest of us get as little as possible. The best of all possible worlds for these people would be a government without power, controlled entirely by corporations and the wealthy, so that we, the people, would be completely powerless, without any means of protection. Free Market, my ass--what these people want is a return to serfdom. They want peons and lords--99% of us will be the peons (shopping at the company store, living in company homes, treated by company doctors). Think I'm full of shit? Check out your wages versus inflation over the last ten years. How much your health benefits have risen. How little autonomy you have in your job any more. How your CEO's pay has risen exponentially compared to yours. How the wealth of the wealthiest 10% has risen compared to the other 90% of the country. More of the same in the years to come? Then the Tea Party is for you. You want the "truth?" Here it is: your "movement" is a movement for corporations and the wealthy, who have as much respect for you and your family, are as concerned about your family's needs, as was Marie Antoinette for her loyal subjects. Good luck with that. Me, I'm going to keep fighting the liberal fight. We deserve it. Peace, emaycee