I know we're mad, maybe even desperate. But supporting hate groups like the tea-parties, whether you're doing it because you hate people or because you're deluded enough to think it's a good political strategy, amounts to the exact same thing: YOU'RE SUPPORTING HATE GROUPS.
To all of the progressives out there engaging in or advocating this most outrageous and self-defeating behavior, i implore you:
PLEASE STOP SUPPORTING HATE GROUPS!
It is a very bad idea to play silly-ass political games with one of the most dangerous hate movements of our time. But unfortunately, I have read more and more progressives and Kosiacs doing just that, under the highly debatable claim that this will split the ReThugs and help Democrats.
But no matter what the reasoning, you cannot deny that advocating support for tea-partiers under the notion that it will help Democrats is asking us to support hate groups so we can gain politically. That is asking us to put party ahead of country, and should only get one response: HELL FUCKING NO.
PLEASE diarests and front-pagers, help stop the hate, speak up against the lunacy of progressives supporting hate groups!
STOP THE HATE! Now, before it becomes unstoppable.
These tea-partiers are mostly racist lunatics who have unleashed a fury of hate into America. It will take all our combined efforts to undue the damage to our nation that this hate-fest will undoubtedly cause. They will spread hate and lies, which WILL claim innocent victims, whether it's the gay kid who gets beat up after his classmates attend rallies with their folks, or the ethnic minorities who have their cars trashed or their churches burned. But some geniuses on "our" side think this is a good idea because we might gain politically.
This is BAD FOR AMERICA.
People who think it's a good idea for hate to spread so they can gain politically apparently care more about their party than they do the good of America. In the past, these people have mostly been ReThugs, now they're tea-partiers, and in the future, judging from some diaries as well as front page articles, they are going to be Democrats & Progressives?!!?!??! There have been far too many diaries, and even front page articles, saying we just sit back and enjoy the rise of the tea-parties and Haters like Sarah Palin. That's just so fucked up.
PLEASE, I know progressives are suffering. Our own party is taking us for granted and not standing up for our values. The ReThugs are engaging in some of their most outrageous behavior and race-baiting in decades. And the Tea Partiers are revolting because the ReThugs aren't bat-shit crazy enough! After the hope of the 2008 election, it is now a very depressing time to be a progressive. But joining the other, reactionary racist, side is not the answer. YOU ARE WHAT YOU DO. If you support hate groups, whatever the twisted reasoning, you are a supporter of hate groups.
It will take all of our progressive strength to try to put this genie of hate back in the bottle. Please please please don't make it harder than it already is.
Instead, FIGHT THE HATE WITH EVERYTHING YOU HAVE. Encourage any sane ReThug friends to prove they're NOT racist/sexist/homphobic/infuckingsane by taking their party away from the lunatics & haters, don't encourage them to be more insane. Yes, I'm bitching, but I'm also begging. PLEASE HELP STOP THE HATE, instead of fanning the flames for some perceived political benefit.
If you are encouraging hate groups like the Tea Partiers, then you have become what they are, supporters of hate groups. No matter how you try to justify it, NOTHING justifies supporting hate groups. If you do it, you are just another run of the mill supporter of hate groups, just as bad as the racists and bigots we claim to all be fighting against.
Progressives fight hate-mongers, they don't sit on the sidelines and root for them.