The Ghastly Tea Partiers

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A friend has invited me to the Tea Party set.  I am appalled, but may attend.  Here in Albuquerque, there are a few scattered freaks who loitered about during tax day whilst the rest of us went about our gainful employment.  Screwed up traffic, they did.

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Why We Lust for Socialism in America.

Americans go about the pretense that we are somehow patriots and lovers of liberty. We resemble the patriots on the Concord Bridge, about as much as the late Michael Jackson and fellow musician Boy George resemble Clint Eastwood and John Wayne.

A living, breathing example - which is rampant in domestic government in that pretense of Liberty that calls itself Orange County, California - is the Homeowners' Association.

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Finding that they had insufficient Government for their comfort, the people of Orange County invented the Homeowners' Association which, by the merits of it being a private corporation, endowed it with infallibility - or so it appears from their actions.

Since this Government was broadly undefined, the people of Orange County and els where sought to imbue it with the breath of their political character. It was intended to be a common corporation which engaged in actions to beautify the common hold. Very quickly, it became a plush, exorbitantly-funded instrument of local Stalinism. Squealers hold the reins in the Homeowners' Associations across America. Protected by "confidential telephone numbers," they are eager to rat each other out, when a neighbor uses "wheat" colored paint on their house, when only "rust beige" has been approved.

The OC's and others don't seem to cop to their own identities, as for some reason they call themselves "conservatives" and vote Republican. Perhaps that should be a lesson about the character, or lack thereof, of the class of people who identify themselves as Republicans, conservatives and Americans, respectively.

Any pathetic "Tea Party Independence Rallies" which take place tomorrow in places within the little local soviets governed by Homeowners' Associations, should consider themselves up there with Joe Stalin and his Moscow "Peace and Freedom Parades." Suckers.Technorati Tags: teabagging

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American Political Movements

For those unfamiliar with politics in America, I must point out a new phenomenon.

But first an aside. A worthy thing it is, that we have sporting events set aside for persons who, through no fault of their own, but perhaps from birth catastrophes, fetal anoxic distress or chromosomal aneuploidy, are physically fit but mentally infirm.

These competitions are called The Special Olympics. They reward agility, teamwork and health, and are universally delightful to both participants and their loving families. Some of the participants are indeed so impaired that they are unable to distinguish between the Olympics Special and Olympics Regular. Thus, the award on the mantelpiece will be a source of pride, and the coming Vancouver Winter Games in 2010 and the London Summer Games of 2012, will be watched by many "defending champions" with admiration for their "fellow competitors."

For those as decrepit in body as mind, we have Tea Parties. Many of the participants, in fact, believe that they are part of some sort of Political Movement. They will watch the upcoming televised Republican National Convention in a few years bursting with the same sort of pride.

There are, to be sure, just as many dreadfully impaired sorts who are part of the Global Warming Movement - but Global Warming does not offer the shibboleth of abject stupidity as an entrance fee. Indeed, there are many obnoxious dolts who are proponents of Global Warming - but that alone does not suffice for identity with cretinhood.

Tea Partiers, briefly, are those who wish to organize to have everything change, except for the things which they wish to stay the same. That does not suffice for evidence of nincompoopery. The fact that their mathematical skills are so rudimentary as to cast into doubt, say, their ability to make change, is worrisome.

Cut all the taxes. Balance the Budget. Do not touch Defense. Those three tenets are sufficient to create a mathematical univese which cannot be solved.

They also rally around the phrase "No Taxation Without Representation!" which calls into question their ability to parse the sentence. Defend the Constitution and Restore Our Christian Nation, is another paradoxical mandate.

These things are what suffice for American Political Debate. They are not at the complexity of mental gymnatics of the question, say, "Is a slug really a snail, or something different?"

I hope that this suffices as informative for our non-American readership.