Forum Post: My Understanding of The Tea Party.

The Tea Baggers are both silly and sinister. Their danger isn’t that they’re about to blow-away every American man, woman and child with automatic weapons. It is in fact the opposite. They have been working systematically to accrue power through the political process. They are generally a well-organized and heavily funded, methodical group (Sound like the opposite of anything?) with the objective of returning America to mid-50’s middle class economic prosperity and order.

But he real agenda of the powers behind this movement is to remove any governmental restraint on corporatism doing unrestricted harm to Americans whenever they deem it to their advantage. (And there’s damn little governmental restraint left!) They wish to return America to the era of the 19th Century robber-barons. The Tea Party originated at the instigation of the health insurance companies and they are bank-rolled by the corporatists, notably the Koch brothers.

I sincerely believe that many in this movement are well-intentioned, but to be blunt, they’re stooges of the corporatists. They’ve been lied to. Disinformation sources such as Fox New have preyed upon their prejudices to convince them that if only they can get government out of the way, America will miraculously be returned to what it was 50 years ago.

It’s not an accident that many are older, and frankly, have a rather limited understanding of cause and effect regarding the issues they’re espousing. The reality is that if the world they’re advocating ever becomes a reality, they’ll find themselves bereft of the social programs upon which they depend, while their children and grandchildren are left to the meager leavings of the corporatist elite.