tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post631925161415652482..comments2024-03-22T20:34:13.792-05:00Comments on Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: The Power of The Tea Party Imaginary: Why is This Man Crying While He Sings the Star Spangled Banner?Lady Zora, Chauncey DeVega, and Gordon Gartrellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138154899923808806noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-76846643591896071652011-09-29T22:06:31.498-05:002011-09-29T22:06:31.498-05:00The Nixon anti-tax rebellion and Southern Strategy...The Nixon anti-tax rebellion and Southern Strategy is all over this. We can't forget the tea party shtick was also operate in Boston during the anti-busing riots in the 1970s and early 1980s. <br /><br />Same trashy class of white reactionaries, even wearing tea bags on their hats.chaunceydevegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652406326490873337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-72144534461814259162011-09-28T09:09:43.965-05:002011-09-28T09:09:43.965-05:00In some surprising ways this doesn't differ mu...In some surprising ways this doesn't differ much from the kneejerks of the late '60s and early 70s seeming to the casual observer to be centered around the Vietnam War, but actually a lot more broad based. Nixon's Great Silent Majority, on the one side, and militants for all manner of change, on the other. As an active part of the latter, I can attest that theater and emotionalism can't be countered with reason. Counter-emotionalism and counter-theater are the only approach with any hope of even partial success. And anyone who believes the activities of that time on the side of change weren't carefully planned theater is ignoring the unwritten history of it all.Old Juleshttp://sofarfromheaven.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-23747154854400642722011-09-28T02:44:28.790-05:002011-09-28T02:44:28.790-05:00@Cnu. We be dumb. Talk us through so we can do the...@Cnu. We be dumb. Talk us through so we can do the same.<br /><br />@Weird beard. We have to go back. Study up on how the Right cooptated language and what we can do to fight back. I have a thought on what to do for a week as an experiment and protest; I do not know if anyone has the courage to do so.<br /><br />@Par. I agree with you. Send some links or cites so we can get them out there.chaunceydevegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652406326490873337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-15055487342081345302011-09-26T19:29:33.800-05:002011-09-26T19:29:33.800-05:00Chauncey, you are right when you define the Tea Pa...Chauncey, you are right when you define the Tea Party members as just simply political theater. They are merely re-enactors potraying folksy colonists living in a bygone era in pre-industialized America. These actors DID NOT WRITE A SINGLE WORD USED IN THE SCRIPT that they all must use on the MSM witnessed stage. Dick Armey and his staff at Freedom Works are the caretakers and producers of the Tea Party in America. Funded by the Koch Brothers Freedom Works took over the fledging adhoc noisy protest mob that evolved out of the Town Hall Hearings held by Democratic legislators to obtain public comment on the recently passed National Health Care Reform Bill. Freedom Works created a staff to structure and organize the self described Tea Party protestors, and they have been controlling them ever since. Therefore, Freedom Works is actually responsible for the election of the 80 freshmen Congress people to the House Of Representatives who ran under the so-called Tea Party banner on the Republican ticket. Let's give credit where credit is due....<br />Peace....parvenunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-55795466409356190032011-09-26T15:10:12.883-05:002011-09-26T15:10:12.883-05:00CD-beautiful work on this, it did my heart good to...CD-beautiful work on this, it did my heart good to read it. <br />-"How do we reach the low information swing voters who are not equipped to navigate this morass?"-<br />I feel that there is an argument to be made against the Tea Party from a Faith based moral perspective. Something akin to the old southern religious democrat of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s time. Shifts in politics over the last few decades have resulted in a situation where the bulk of the southern/rural religious voter block has been poached from the Democratic party by the Dominionist Theocrats that now make up the heart (or at least a few chambers thereof) of the current Tea Bagger GOP. <br />The arguments are there to be made from a faith perpective, but the Democratic party has pushed so hard to distance themselves from the religious base, and the Tea Baggers have welcomed them in with open arms. <br />How in this modern era do we navigate championing issues such as women's rights (abortion), equal rights (gay marriage), undocumented worker rights (illegal immigration), Teaching science in school (taking gawd out of school)etc etc while still drawing in rural/southern religious 'moral' voters?<br />Have we created this monster ourselves?weird beardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-51770059626993584202011-09-24T19:30:54.731-05:002011-09-24T19:30:54.731-05:00Google Reader.
though it's really not that co...<a href="https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=reader&passive=1209600&continue=http://www.google.com/reader/view/&followup=http://www.google.com/reader/view/" rel="nofollow">Google Reader</a>.<br /><br />though it's really not that complicated...,CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-41636759918863440062011-09-24T17:57:07.284-05:002011-09-24T17:57:07.284-05:00@Ish. Be careful Ish. you are going to make me thi...@Ish. Be careful Ish. you are going to make me think I am an effective communicator.<br /><br />@Cnu. You are right. I already have one monitoring me in class as we speak. Straight Fox Breitbart talking points and then when he is refuted he jots vigorous notes. <br /><br />The "they" already know who I am but I am small business and not worthy of the ammo yet. They probe around and make forays but I mostly deflect.<br /><br />What is up with Cobbers? I missed that episode. How are his white nativists doing?<br /><br />Also, what is your take on how the protofascists use dummy accounts and rss feeders to troll message boards. The technical side sounds really fascinating. Can you clarify it for lay knuckleheads like me?chaunceydevegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652406326490873337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-30769785874717341842011-09-24T17:46:53.831-05:002011-09-24T17:46:53.831-05:00Once again CDV, you missed the essential gist of t...Once again CDV, you missed <a href="http://ravingblacklunatic.blogspot.com/2011/09/function-fbsclick-ulocation.html?showComment=1316872034733#c6218811870331426021" rel="nofollow">the essential gist</a> of the thing....,<br /><br />Kwestin - is that because you're unreachable when it comes down to ontological matters, or, is that because even as a pseudo-anonymous Interweb interlocutor - you're not permitted to interrogate reality that deeply?<br /><br />How long after the naked exchange of threats at Cobb's between Guh-rard and myself, did it take for Breitbart to begin publicly making threats?<br /><br />Mebbe it's time to stop playing at the pursuit of public intellectual/entertainer ambition, and instead get serious about what's around that signpost up ahead? Cause best believe that when <a href="http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/judy-ancel-umkc-andrew-breitbart-james-okeefe/Content?oid=2630438" rel="nofollow">they pierce the flimsy veil</a> of your online anonymity, it's gone be own like donkey kong.CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-69077534598634340212011-09-24T16:39:29.167-05:002011-09-24T16:39:29.167-05:00"A key point. When the ghouls in the audience..."A key point. When the ghouls in the audience at the last three Republican debates howled for murder, death, and in support of hatred towards Americans who happen not to be straight, they were marking out the boundaries of their political community. Their cheers were not those of outliers; they were the id of a community that stood silent in complicity and agreement."<br /><br />That went straight to facebook. Concisely and well said.ishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02750800388443950585noreply@blogger.com