On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Francis Drouillard <[email protected]>wrote:
> If you're interested in the truth about Tea Partiers, you may want to read > this article: > > < > http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/09/16/2010-09-16_stop_mocking_the_tea_party_if_anyone_is_nuts_its_the_elites_and_incumbents.html > > > > My only quibble with her take is that the Tea Party is more of a political > movement or awakening than an organized political party, and one that > befuddles and confuses both major political parties. > i cringe at the term 'elites' .... nothing like an allusion to create an image to inflame the entitlement greed of the consumer class ... the aspirational hard done by but "we were promised we could rule the world if we buy more than we can afford and live your prescribed dream" ... a very good prescription for maintaining the good old 'the richer get richer and the poor get poorer" i am still gobsmaked about this "On his radio show, Mr. Beck said he had not intended to choose the anniversary for his “Restoring Honor” rally on Saturday but had since decided it was “divine providence.” Dr. King’s dream, he told listeners, “has been so corrupted.” “Judge a man by the content of his character?” he said. “Character doesn’t even matter in this country. It’s time we picked back up the job.” He later added: “We are the people of the civil rights movement. We are the ones that must stand for civil and equal rights, justice, equal justice. Not special justice, not social justice. We are the inheritors and protectors of the civil rights movement. They are perverting it.” i am sure it was "divine providence" and carefully constructed and stage managed the hubris to call on an Elite because of course Martin Luther King is an Elite in the dictionary sense of of the word ... the "I have a Dream' speech will be/ is one of those documents like the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence the Ten Commandments referenced and referenced the referenced again all this alluding reminds me of a quote from Walter Benjamin " The *logical* outcome of *fascism* is an *aestheticizing* of *political* life " as the Italian Facists said “Fiat ars, pereat mundus” mx > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<stratalist-ot%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
