This isn't really a diary so I apologize in advance. I just had to get this off my chest and my morning is such that in depth analysis, links, or even much dialogue was not in the cards.
But as I know folks plan on gathering in the square of my county seat, Franklin, Tennessee, with their tea bags and Marsha Blackburn, Phil Valentine, and Steve Gill, I wanted to let them know how I felt.
Dear Tea Baggers,
Srsly, wtf do you people think you are?
The self described Party of Personal Responsibility who lied us into a war for profiteers insists on tax cuts while our troops are still embroiled overseas?
Are you effing kidding me?
The number of people required to pay taxes during WWII went from 4 million in 1939 to 43 million in 1945.
The highest tax bracket paid a 94% tax rate.
Yet, still, people bought war bonds, planted victory gardens (organic!), volunteered with the Red Cross, and donated blood.
Ration coupon books told you how much gas you could buy along with sugar, butter, milk, and meat. Everything from ladies' stockings to chicken wire were subject to rationing.
Boys lied about their age to get into the army and women entered the workforce to keep food on the table and production lines running.
For 8 years you idiots called me and people like me "traitors". You told me to pack my bags and leave. You acted all shocked and hurt upon discovering I was in the highest tax bracket yet remained a diehard Democrat.
Now you openly call for the failure of our nation's leader in a time of war. Some call for secession. Your FOX acolytes foment open rebellion against the state and bemoan imagined leftwing ownership of the media on a station the right wing owns. You cry about lack of representation even as your elected representatives join you in this mockery of protest. You bitch about your taxes even as our volunteer soldiers suffer shortages of equipment and supplies.
Your actions are the very definition of seditious. You are a treasonous cancer eating away at the fabric of our nation in your bid for greater power, more riches, and a Whiter®, Shinier™, Christian States of America.
You want this nation to be one giant gated community but you don't want that to be paid for by your taxes, nor are you willing to pay $8 a head for lettuce.
No. You want to continue the growth of an underclass that mushroomed under George W. Bush's so-called "leadership" to provide troops for your wars and cheap labor to raise your profit margin.
You want to stamp your feet and rave on the radio about imagined slights and conjured demons because Reactionaries are nothing without fear and panic to react to.
I used to view you as simple minded children who considered Congress their playground and threw tantrums when they got over tired or needed to fund an Oxycontin buy but now, amidst your calls to arms, inspiring murderous criminals, and abetting tax fraud, I see you for the danger to America that you truly are.
I also think you picked the "tea bagging" appellation on purpose because your balls really are that big.
No doubt this will fall on deaf ears or I will get misspelled polemical (you may want to look that up) emails but I feel better for having said it and now I'm going to go have a nice cup of tea and write a big fat check that will, in part, cover Marsha Blackburn's salary even though I didn't vote for her.
Have a nice day.