It’s Official: Tea Party Movement Needs Psychiatric Help
Of course, there is always room for people to disagree on an issue a significant as healthcare reform. What’s interesting is the level of displeasure that has been expressed by the Tea Party Movement and others who seem to have reacted to cracking down on insurance companies as if the President and Democrats had killed their cat. As reports have streamed in of democratic offices being attacked with bricks, or possibly shot at, as was the case with Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, one has to wonder if the healthcare opposition has completely lost its mind. Of course if you need more evidence, there is always the dramatic increase in death threats that some members of Congress have received over the past few days.
Right wing conservatives have always fascinated me. When their spiritual leader, George W. Bush decided to give the wealthiest one percent of Americans a huge tax break, arguably leading the country into the worst economic period since the Great Depression, they weren’t throwing bricks through windows, or threatening to kill people. But a democrat does something they don’t like, and all of a sudden they all join militias and start blowing things up. It continues to fascinate me.
While I understand these tea party folks are angry (you’d have to be a certified idiot not to figure that out from some of their rabid protests), and I think I sort of understand what they’re angry about, I can’t for the life of me understand the degree to which they have taken their fight. What’s even more frustrating is that statistically, there must be a reasonable portion of these people that posses above average intelligence, and yet no one can communicate to the outside world exactly what their particular complaints are.
Every time I write one of these posts, I somehow get on a list of “bad” sites, and our server gets choked with people frothing at the mouth to comment, and unfortunately, usually the comments prove that what I just wrote was dead on.