[Sherman Logan]

Despite the clip’s insistence that the movement was about small government, common sense policy and traditional morals, Parker claimed that in reality the Tea Party is a reactionary movement that was birthed from a pervasive fear of social change.

Note the implicit and false assumption that the two cannot both be true.

Is it conceivable that the social change we fear involves larger government, nonsensical policies and immorality?

The subtext here is that "social change" is always good, and opposition to it is always bad. But of course Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot all brought great social change to their nations.

This is all part of the base-stealing and circular argument liberals never get called on.

Everybody is in favor of progress, right?

Progressives are of course by definition favor of Progress? So what policies will bring Progress about?

Well, of course, those would be the policies preferred by Progressives. So if you're opposed to those policies, you're against Progress and "social change."

The odd part is that I'm in favor of "social change" far more profound than that favored by Chris Parker. I want America to return to the values outlined in the Declaration of Independence, but purged of the racism and sexism inherent in them when they were produced. Those aspects were linked to the time of writing, not to the eternal values in the actual words themselves.

So I'm the real radical, and Chris is a reactionary who wants to keep things going the direction they've been headed for the last 75 years.

But he's the fearless change agent, and I'm hiding under the bed in fear of the future and the loss of my "privileged position?"

Is there any group in the history of the world more privileged than Parker, his colleagues and audience?

Sorry, rant off.

[woweeitsme]

Great reply.

I was going to reply with “Taxed Enough Already” really isn’t all that threatening. There hasn’t been any violence associated with the TEA Party, unlike radical leftists.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Five will get you ten Chrissy has a Che Guevera poster in his home.

[wita]

Is there any group in the history of the world more privileged than Parker, his colleagues and audience?

European Royalty?

...but if there is a contest, the results would be extremely close.

I just love reading comments made by clueless folks basking in the freedom they cannot appreciate, that allows them to wax poetic about everything they love to hate, but would be gallows bait in many other venues.

Frankly Scarlett, I loved your rant.