I figure that we have teabaggers in this country for two basic reasons

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MrScorpio  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Feb-20-10 08:36 PM
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I figure that we have teabaggers in this country for two basic reasons   Updated at 8:39 PM
   
Edited on Sat Feb-20-10 08:52 PM by MrScorpio
The inability of our educational system to instill a proper civics lesson in students. The result is that too many people have absolutely no idea about how to exercise their rights and responsibilities as citizens. Without a proper knowledge base in the electorate, jingoism and completely wrong ideas about the proper function of government are allowed to take root and grow like weeds, clogging the entire process.

Except for the growth of the massively profitable security state, the ability of government to deal with the needs of most Americans is left to rot.

Americans routinely give up most of their hard fought rights to those police and security state tactics. (Somehow the right to bear arms is given preeminence above all others).

The result is a cult of insularity and selfishness and an overwhelming sense of misplaced entitlement and a fearful sense that others than themselves may be able to reap the "benefits" of our society. As in, they want the benefits of a civilized society, but aren't willing to pay for it and allow it to function in an egalitarian fashion.

At no time do they ever realize that people like undocumented workers and women and minorities in general are still treated as second class citizens in this country.

Basically, teabaggers have absolutely no idea how things are supposed to function and they suffer from a massive case of cognitive dissonance in regards to their role in a properly functioning society.

The second problem is the massive corporately sponsored propaganda campaign that takes the place of the inadequate civics education.

The result is corporate personhood, the overwhelming influence that money and corporate concerns have in the halls of government over the needs and concerns of the majority of Americans. The corporations are then given carte blanche to exploit and abuse workers, promote legislation that usurps the basic needs of people to make a proper living in our relatively huge economic system.

Since the corporate masters depress wages and earning potential by forcing American workers to directly compete with people earning paupers' wages overseas, they are directly responsible for restricting access to wealth and concentrating a higher percentage of it among fewer and fewer people.

This adds to the sense of powerless that they already have from not knowing what their true role as citizens. The fourth estate, already owned and instructed to by their corporate masters, are complicit in promoting disinformation and distraction to keep most people in the dark. Behaving quite like fifth columnists.

An improperly educated electorate routinely sends people to government who are co-opted by corporate influence, or are just too incompetent to take their responsibilities properly. So, we end of with corporate whores, weaklings and hypocrites of either party, who are all too happy to serve their grey suit wearing masters.

It falls to an un-coopted media to expose this insidious connection, very loudly and very frequently.

The result of overwhelming corporate clout is a sense of corresponding overwhelming powerlessness and the frustration that ensues, all taken advantage of by functionaries who hail from the very same source of these problems; the corporations and their whores in the government and the media.

And again, that plague of cognitive dissonance prevents our teabagging friends from seeing the root of the problem.

As an addendum, about the issue that teabaggers, who on one hand declare that they AREN'T racists, but on the other routinely they use rhetoric straight out of an anti-civil rights rally from the 1950's, I chalk that up to their inability to work through the aforementioned cognitive dissonance. These people, and I'm sure that they are from the least culturally diverse areas of the country, have absolutely no idea what constitutes bigoted thought and language.

That lack of exposure, coupled with the all to human tendency to blame people unlike themselves for their own problems is the cause why we see the high level of resentment against President Obama's non-whiteyness, undocumented workers and people who are generally unlike themselves within the teabagging rank and file.

Unless there are some radical changes with the cultural and age demographics in the problem areas of the country, that teabagging mentality will pretty much persist.

(So, Liberals and minorities, you need to flood the teabagger communities en masse, Green Acres style, post haste.)


All in all, unless these people turn violent, rest assured that they don't know what the **** they're bitching about. And instead of coddling to their whining and moaning, I wish to the Goddess that the Democratic leadership completely IGNORES THEM!

It's not like they're Democratic Party constituents anyway.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7760046

Just like always they have it backwards. If anyone has an understanding of how our govt and the constitution is supposed to work it is the tea party people. If anyone needs to be educated it is the DUmmies.

Yurovsky  Donating Member  (969 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Feb-20-10 08:43 PM
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3. That education ship done sailed for the teabaggers...
   
most of them are pretty long in the tooth, and don't look to inclined to crack a book anyway.

I bet any tea party person knows ten times more about the constitution than any DUmmy.

Mugweed  (759 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Feb-20-10 08:55 PM
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10. They might thump on a bible, though.
   
I'm not saying they actually read it, just use it to justify bigotry.

The old race card.

baldguy  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Feb-20-10 08:48 PM
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5. Carefully cultured ignorance & manufactured fear.

Coming from people who still believe in global warming this is funny.
Global warming is manufactured fear plain and simple. The data was falsified and even after they admitted to doing so you goons still buy the hoax.

KonaKane  (500 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Feb-20-10 08:49 PM
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6. Spot on. Their lack of civics education has always been the number one giveaway.
   
And the factor to which I always return when I wondered how they got here. Their lack of education is on stuff like this is abysmal. I still run into many of their number who cannot recite any one of our basic rights in the BoR besides the right to bear arms and the 10th. Also, they routinely confuse "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness" as being written in the Constitution instead of the Declaration of Independence.

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

Hell most libs think the constitution grants us a right to free health care and abortion meanwhile they say the second amendment doesn't give the individual the right to bear arms.

Our side does not lack education it is the leftists who have no clue about our const and our govt.

[GOBUCKS]

At no time do they ever realize that people like undocumented workers..are still treated as second class citizens in this country.

I could not get beyond this amazingly stupid and comical statement.
I'm sure there were more nuggets, but I couldn't get past this jawdropper.

[The Village Idiot]

These people have no concept of limited government, Bill of Rights and separation of powers

[thundley4]

The inability of our educational system to instill a proper civics lesson in students. The result is that too many people have absolutely no idea about how to exercise their rights and responsibilities as citizens.

The result is a cult of insularity and selfishness and an overwhelming sense of misplaced entitlement and a fearful sense that others than themselves may be able to reap the "benefits" of our society. As in, they want the benefits of a civilized society, but aren't willing to pay for it and allow it to function in an egalitarian fashion

This adds to the sense of powerless that they already have from not knowing what their true role as citizens. The fourth estate, already owned and instructed to by their corporate masters, are complicit in promoting disinformation and distraction to keep most people in the dark. Behaving quite like fifth columnists.

An improperly educated electorate routinely sends people to government who are co-opted by corporate influence, or are just too incompetent to take their responsibilities properly. So, we end of with corporate whores, weaklings and hypocrites of either party, who are all too happy to serve their grey suit wearing masters.

As an addendum, about the issue that teabaggers, who on one hand declare that they AREN'T racists, but on the other routinely they use rhetoric straight out of an anti-civil rights rally from the 1950's, I chalk that up to their inability to work through the aforementioned cognitive dissonance. These people, and I'm sure that they are from the least culturally diverse areas of the country, have absolutely no idea what constitutes bigoted thought and language.

Lots of projection in that long winded post.

[kenth]

I could not get beyond this amazingly stupid and comical statement.
I'm sure there were more nuggets, but I couldn't get past this jawdropper.

Same place that had me stopped. There's just no point in going any further.

[MrsSmith]

The inability of our educational system to instill a proper civics lesson in students. The result is that too many people have absolutely no idea about how to exercise their rights and responsibilities as citizens.

...

Except for the growth of the massively profitable security state, the ability of government to deal with the needs of most Americans is left to rot.

Making Mr Scorpio one of the prime candidates for that civic education he recommends.    

[dandi]

Can't we have something like a reverse Mariel Boatlift, where we just pack these nimrods on a bunch of rusty tubs and shove them off for Cuba?

[PatriotGame]

MrScorpio  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Feb-20-10 08:36 PM
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I figure that we have teabaggers in this country for two basic reasons   Updated at 8:39 PM
  
Edited on Sat Feb-20-10 08:52 PM by MrScorpio
The inability of our educational system to instill a proper civics lesson in students. The result is that too many people have absolutely no idea about how to exercise their rights and responsibilities as citizens. Without a proper knowledge base in the electorate, jingoism and completely wrong ideas about the proper function of government are allowed to take root and grow like weeds, clogging the entire process.

Speaking of the current LIBERAL UNION run educational system, this is one reason for the Tea Party movement - so we can use the political system to toss you cocksucking (literally) furry/fag/dyke/tranny/pedophile scumbags back into the gutters where you belong. After we gain enough political power, we will pass legislation that will OUTLAW your existence then either imprison you for life, or shove your bowling ball sized rectums into a heavy lift rocket and jettison you into the sun.


Homosexuals brainwashing our children in elementary schools  Extremely slick propaganda directed at the youngest of children! The videos below are from It's Elementary, a 78-minute feature film produced by homosexual activists.  These are actual scenes from elementary schools in Massachusetts and New York.  It's Elementary is meant to be a training video for homosexual activist teachers across the country. In addition, the film itself has been shown to schoolchildren in public schools in Massachusetts and elsewhere.Homosexuals brainwashing our children in elementary schools

Extremely slick propaganda directed at the youngest of children! The videos below are from It's Elementary, a 78-minute feature film produced by homosexual activists.  These are actual scenes from elementary schools in Massachusetts and New York.  It's Elementary is meant to be a training video for homosexual activist teachers across the country. In addition, the film itself has been shown to schoolchildren in public schools in Massachusetts and elsewhere.[

[Airwolf]

civics lessons from the same group of insane assholes that can't understand the fact it was their side that rook over the education system and replaced Government  and civics classes with ones about sex and how to be a comunity organizer

[diesel driver]

I could not get beyond this amazingly stupid and comical statement.
I'm sure there were more nuggets, but I couldn't get past this jawdropper.

Same here.  Since when do undocumented workers (ie ILLEGAL ALIENS) have ANY rights as citizens, second class or not....

Then, there's this nugget:

The result is a cult of insularity and selfishness and an overwhelming sense of misplaced entitlement and a fearful sense that others than themselves may be able to reap the "benefits" of our society. As in, they want the benefits of a civilized society, but aren't willing to pay for it and allow it to function in an egalitarian fashion.

THIS is the PERFECT description of liberals in general, and DUmmies in particular....

[delilahmused]

MrScorpio  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Feb-20-10 08:36 PM
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I figure that we have teabaggers in this country for two basic reasons   Updated at 8:39 PM
   
Edited on Sat Feb-20-10 08:52 PM by MrScorpio
The inability of our educational system to instill a proper civics lesson in students. The result is that too many people have absolutely no idea about how to exercise their rights and responsibilities as citizens. Without a proper knowledge base in the electorate, jingoism and completely wrong ideas about the proper function of government are allowed to take root and grow like weeds, clogging the entire process.

Wouldn't the fact that they're out there making their voices heard, working to get different, more responsive people elected (you know, ones that understand they're put there to REPRESENT us, not rule us kinda be exercising their rights? Whether those in Washington listen or not, I figure people exercising their right to free speech "got" the civics lesson.

As to the proper function of government, the constitution is pretty specific about what it's role is. Last time I checked, it wasn't mandating health care or passing bills the majority of those they REPRESENT (not rule) do not want.

Except for the growth of the massively profitable security state, the ability of government to deal with the needs of most Americans is left to rot.

Americans routinely give up most of their hard fought rights to those police and security state tactics. (Somehow the right to bear arms is given preeminence above all others).

Seriously, every time I think you guys can't possibly get any dumber, you prove me wrong. The right to bear arms specifically prevents a police state. I just can't believe someone with this kind of stupid hasn't died of exposure or something yet. This is just really, really stupid.

The result is a cult of insularity and selfishness and an overwhelming sense of misplaced entitlement and a fearful sense that others than themselves may be able to reap the "benefits" of our society. As in, they want the benefits of a civilized society, but aren't willing to pay for it and allow it to function in an egalitarian fashion.

Entitlement? Like being "entitled" to have your health care paid by someone else? Because anyone can walk into any emergency room and get quality health care. To want to take something that someone else has worked hard for to give it to someone else who has no intention of helping him or her self is the ultimate in selfishness. And the only "benefit" we are guaranteed is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Beyond that, I'll take care of my family (I have a "selfish" stake in their welfare since I love them deeply and want the very best for them, thus am willing to selfishly work to make that happen). You can do the same for your friends and loved ones. That way, we all personally "benefit" from the bounty of this great nation.

At no time do they ever realize that people like undocumented workers and women and minorities in general are still treated as second class citizens in this country.

Undocumented workers have BROKEN OUR LAWS. They don't get the same rights as you and I. Hell, a CITIZEN who robs a bank has more rights as far as I'm concerned. I don't know what kind of world DUmmie women and minorities live in, but I'm NOT a second class citizen. If the people in your world feel that way, maybe you ought to check your own community's prejudices and behaviors.

Basically, teabaggers have absolutely no idea how things are supposed to function and they suffer from a massive case of cognitive dissonance in regards to their role in a properly functioning society.

Okay, that's it. This is just too massively idiotic and delusional to garner any response. I'm thinking I'm not going to bother with the rest because this is simply dead-end kind of stupid. Absolutely vapid. Mind-numbing. Somebody this damn dumb would forget their coat in a snowstorm. Except I would like to add that the left has controlled education for decades. If civics education is lacking look to your own teachers there at DU. When you have teachers like greenbriar who consider quality education is making sure your minority students like you well enough to be their slave owner, maybe it's time to step away from the chalkboard.

Cindie

[JohnnyReb]

The Bill Ayers students have learned their lessons well.

[Carl]

The inability of our educational system to instill a proper civics lesson in students. The result is that too many people have absolutely no idea about how to exercise their rights and responsibilities as citizens. Without a proper knowledge base in the electorate, jingoism and completely wrong ideas about the proper function of government are allowed to take root and grow like weeds, clogging the entire process.

This statement actually is spot on and the person has no idea that they just described why O is now President.
If kids were taught the proper function of government as defined by the Constitution and envisioned by the founders of this country liberals would be rode out on a rail.
It is the left that has decided government needs to take on the characteristics of a person and is responsible for our care and oversight.

[franksolich]

Okay, now the scorpion primitve has explained why we have Tea Party patriots.

Next question.

Why do we have the scorpion primitive?

One excuse, not two, would be sufficient.

[MrsSmith]

Speaking of the current LIBERAL UNION run educational system, this is one reason for the Tea Party movement - so we can use the political system to toss you ...

Patriot, it is not good for you to bottle up your feelings so much.  You really need to vent once in a while.

 

[BadCat]

Seeing SrA Dorkio even discuss education is a hoot.

[franksolich]

Seeing SrA Dorkio even discuss education is a hoot.

Yeah, he likes to imagine he's a bad one, doesn't he?

Sort of like the same way the cross-eyed Iowa primitive, the "Hawkeye-X" primitive is.

[Randy]

Okay, now the scorpion primitve has explained why we have Tea Party patriots.

Next question.

Why do we have the scorpion primitive?

One excuse, not two, would be sufficient.

That ones easy to answer Frank.

We have him because natural selection has been virtually eliminated in the human race so that his type survives.