Calling all teabaggers
An Invitation to the Tea Parties to Join the Fight
The Wall Street Journal writes today about how the tea party movement might be turning on Wall Street. I don’t really believe it, but I’m excited by the possibility. Could the tea party guys actually be legitimate? Well, there is one way they can prove it.
I’ve made a lot of fun of the tea party people on our show. The main reason is that I think they’re being led around the nose by corporate interests while mistakenly believing they’re fighting the powers that be. They’re being used as tools by the same exact people they think they are battling against, i.e. the elites that screwing over the little guy.
But now, I’d like to change course and welcome them in. I believe portions of the movement are redeemable (we’ll find out soon enough if I’m smoking crack on this one). Yes, some of them are full-blown crazy with their birther theories and lunatic signs about holocausts and fascism. A lot of them are actually mad because they think they have lost their privileged position in the country (hence, the cries of “I want my country back”). But many of them are populists that have simply been led in the wrong direction.</em>
I believe this to be the case, and as more and more people realize that Obama isn’t the Great Chocolate Hope they had convinced themselves he would be, I see great potential for a mass joining of the ranks, united in the belief that we’re being led to ruin by bankers, Washington and “the powers that be”.
Tanks in the streets baby, tanks in the f’n streets.
