What’s distinctive about the Tea Party is its anarchist streak — its antagonism toward any authority, its belligerent self-expression, and its lack of any coherent program or alternative to the policies it condemns,” warns Jacob Weisberg in Newsweek. But why not three cheers for the Tea Party Express?
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Unfortunately they’re tone deaf. Congress cannot see past the election. All that changes in November.So thanks Tea Party, Vegas odds must favor a Second American Revolution. Actually, the revolution is already roaring, hot, it’s about time. The GOP and the Dems had more than a decade. But America’s worse off. We need a real revolution to restore sanity … or we can kiss democracy and capitalism good-bye, permanently.
Yes, big warning, the Second American Revolution will extract painful austerity, not the “happy days are here again” future touted by tea-baggers. For years it’ll be impossible for most of America’s 95 million investors to develop a successful investment or logical retirement strategy. [...] So if you think you’re “mad as hell” now, “you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!”
Here’s the timeline:
Stage 1: The Dems just put the nail in their coffin by confirming they are wimps, refusing to force the GOP to filibuster the Bush tax cuts for America’s richest.
Stage 2: The GOP takes over the House, expanding its war to destroy Obama with its new policy of “complete gridlock,” even “shutting down government.”
Stage 3: Obama goes lame-duck.
Stage 4: The GOP wins back the White House and Senate in 2012. Health care returns to insurers. Free market financial deregulation returns.
Stage 5: Under the new president, Wall Street’s insatiable greed triggers the catastrophic third meltdown of the 21st century Shiller predicted, with defaults on dollar-denominated debt.
Stage 6: The Second American Revolution explodes into a brutal full-scale class war rebelling against the out-of-touch, out-of-control greedy conspiracy-of-the-rich now running America.
Stage 7: Domestic class warfare is compounded by Pentagon’s prediction that by 2020 “an ancient pattern of desperate, all-out wars over food, water, and energy supplies would emerge” worldwide and “warfare is defining human life.”What’s behind our 2010-2020 countdown? It became obvious after reading the brilliant but bleak “Decadence of Election 2010” report by Prof. Peter Morici, former chief economist at the International Trade Commission. He sees no hope from America’s political parties, just a dark scenario ahead.
#59 It wouldn’t be so bad if a reasonable majority of Americans actually wanted a witch to represent them in Congress.
Howver, that’s not the case.
As usual, my point about representation is way over your pin head.
#61 – If they don’t want a witch to represent them, what’s Nancy Pelousy doing in Congress?
Most of the problems that we have today, come from Reagan, when he said that the government can do no good, THEN WENT ON TO PROVE IT!
People treated this puppet of corporate interests as a god, and continued to elect people who also believed that government can do no good, then go on to prove it, when elected.
When people start to elect people into government, who say that government can do good, and is here to serve WE THE PEOPLE, not them, the corporations, MAYBE things will change. As long as we have a plutocracy, and corporations rule, we will continue to have a falling middle class, as the greedy get richer.
#63 – I’m sure I remember Barry saying things along that line. Too bad that, Bush having outlasted his usefulness, Barry was fished out of the same (pinstriped, crisply pressed) pockets of the same corporate interests as his predecessors, and plopped right into the presidency. Fail. (well, Great Success! if you’re one of the puppeteers).
Those talking about how regulation keeps the corporations down, I have news for you. Corporations love regulations. Why? Because only large corporations can afford the cost of compliance. That keeps small businesses from competing with the larger corporations. Thus you only end up with bland products from established corporations. Regulation keeps new businesses from entering the industry to shake the apple cart.
This whole scenario depicted in the article is some progressive’s fantasy. #7 bob’s post was right. Spending is the problem. The GOP and the Democrats have a spending problem, but the Democrats take spending to a new level. STOP SPENDING MORE MONEY THAN WE TAKE IN. Yes, I was shouting that.
One thing’s for sure, I don’t like how things are being run right now. So, I’m going to do my part to correct it at every level I can.
So what’s distinctive about Comrade Uncle Dave…he hates freedom, calls it anarchy.
The class warfare that is coming via the tea party is US against the governing progressive elite and their soft tyranny…which uncle Dave loves.
The Tea Party expunge Demopublicans from our party, or make the Republican party the smaller third party option…they either follow us, or become irrelevant.
And if we don’t succeed and statists like Uncle Dave win, then America is finished as “United States,” secession will occur.
And we will make our stand in the remaining free states of America.
57 exactly. Cases in point: Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, john Kerry, john McCain., Barbara Boxer, Al Franken …
#8 Dallas ” I have little faith in the right leaning judicial branch once they ruled corporations can pour UNLIMITED money into a candidate.”
Whenever you libs spin this little tale why don’t you ever include unions? They were favored by the same legislation. Apparently the object is not to tell the truth but a half truth that is actually a lie that favors the loons. Typical!
#12 “all they have are a bunch of soundbites of catchy, but empty, slogans.”
Sorta like “Change we can believe in” The current president is nothing but a soundbite. Well, maybe a teleprompter too.
#18 “China’s trading post WalMart”
Wal-Mart can do something Obama can’t, provide jobs!
# 58
Dear America,
Protect us from what? You conquered Iraq twice? Well sort of.
You still haven’t dealt with the Taliban (remember those assholes who killed your people in your biggest city?). You’ve taken the biggest military machine in history and frittered it away on empty sand and promises of cheap Walmart trinkets. It’s now broken. And you can’t afford to pay for it anymore. You can’t even protect yourselves from yourselves.
WW2 and your greatest generation were indeed great. And noble. And brave.
You are not the greatest generation. Suck it up. Get over it.
Yours truly,
The Rest of the World
I read dvorak.org daily and generally like it but this is one of the stupidest, most insane things I have seen in a while. Seriously…how did this make it to the page?
“What’s distinctive about the Tea Party is its anarchist streak — its antagonism toward any authority, its belligerent self-expression, and its lack of any coherent program or alternative to the policies it condemns,”
What I like the most about that paragraph is that it tries to justify with elegant words how much middle-aged white people in the U.S.A. hates to have a black man as a president.
#69 Figures Repugs like you are OK with corporations buying government.
You have no problem with Exxon writing a check for a billion dollars to overwhelm a million Americans contributing $20 to their choice.
Shame on you.I want to be on your death panel when you turn 75.
This is almost written like it’s supposed to be a scare piece. Most people in this country don’t want a future like that, therefore they won’t allow it to happen.
#75 Is that foam I see coming from your mouth? Call the city pound!
dallas you moron, people voted and that was the winner. You want somebody else go and vote. majority rules
And so we see democracy’s death roll in America:
“The best government money can buy.”
And morons like Sup Ct, jman, and Nextlie all think voting and money are the same thing. Its “thinking” like that that allows for a tea party. Lashing out at your own throat.
Stoopid Hoomans.
#79 Yeah! We have to stop this repuke government & its repuke house majority