Posted on 06/30/2010 7:30:10 PM PDT by PuzzledInTX
Why is the Angry Public so Angry?
I think we all know why the Tea Party movement arose — and why even the polls do not quite reflect the growing generic anger at incumbents in general, and our elites in particular.
Anger at Everything?
There is a growing sense that government is what I would call a new sort of Versailles — a vast cadre of royal state and federal workers that apparently assumes immunity from the laws of economics that affect everyone else.
In the olden days, we the public sort of expected that the L.A. Unified School District paid the best and got the worst results. We knew that you didn’t show up at the DMV if you could help it. A trip to the emergency room was to descend into Dante’s Inferno. We accepted all that in other words, and went on with our business.
But at some point — perhaps triggered by the radical increase in the public sector under Obama, the militancy of the SEIU, or the staggering debts — the public snapped and has had it with whining union officials and their political enablers who always threaten to cut off police and fire protection if we object that there are too many unproductive, unnecessary, but too highly paid employees at the Social Service office. In short, sometime in the last ten years public employees were directly identified with most of what is now unsustainable in the U.S. The old idea that a public servant gave up a competitive salary for job security was redefined as hitting the jackpot.
The Tea Party is not over
There is another Tea Party theme that those who play by the rules are being had, from both the top and bottom.
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
We all know that people who are involved in politics have strong opinions, but I've been AMAZED at the number of vendors and service people who have been coming through the door who want to talk and vent. There have been some from every party, but every single one of them says the same thing...what we're saying. Everyone is mad. They may be mad for different reasons, but they are really, really mad.
LOL - Hillary gets millions of liberals to turn into yelling, mouth-frothing, blood-hating maniacs for years and years, utterly unable to even remotely explain their insane rage over issues they display complete ignorance over, and no one asks, even once, where all of that emotional violence came from.
But when people are told that they have to justify the value of their lives to a communist death panel, while at the same time three trillion dollars in burned in front of them, liberals are utterly perplexed as to why they are angry.
Talk of revolution has not been this loud since 1861, when another man from Illinois occupied the White House. The Left talks of revolution to install a dictatorship and the Right talks of revolution to save the republic.
Should revolution go beyond talking, will it be an American type or a French type? My fear is that it is trending towards a French type, and that does not bode well - for anybody.
We have long been a nation divided by ideology and it is not getting any better. We must all be prepared for the worst; anything other than that will be a pleasant surprise.
We are coming very close to the end game. That would be amnesty. They like to claim it is for about 10 million people. But that would not be the truth. It is far more. Out of compassion they will bring in their whole families that will suck up what is left of the carcass.
There will be no need to close the borders, they know it, and so do we.
All of these people will ensure the communists in charge will be in place forever.
Any real American will have lost any reason to vote again.
Americans will be the minority.
In other words, making the ground ready for a new civil war or revolution.
Bookmark for later read
I do believe that it will be an American and here is the reason why, people are FED UP with ANYTHING involving TYRANNY, PERIOD. THIS WILL BE a major house cleaning.
Bookmarked.
Wow! Very well written. Thanks for posting the piece up.
I don’t think the ballot box will work. The sickening part is that I don’t have much faith that we will do anything, or be able to stop what is being done.
It is almost bizzare for folks to worry about 2012 yet. Things are far from normal.
If amnesty happens, the GOP won’t have to bother fielding any candidate. I think the GOP thinks if they support CIR they will get some of the votes. yeah, right
What a joke.
If you need to ask then you'll never understand. And most politicians on both sides of the aisle will never, ever understand.
Please see post number 29. Thanks!
Well they will understand come November.
I know Obama is the catalyst and the current target, but is there anyone who really thinks that had McCain won the election, Tea Party would have no longer been needed and would have gone away? That government would not have grown, that deficits would not have been as massive, that any of the issues Hanson lists here would not have been just as big a bone of contention? Hanson’s blaming it all on Obama is a bit of a cop out. The issues that brought on the Tea Party movement are not 18 months old. They began building during Bush, if not before.
compassionate conservatism was code word for socialist lite
Indeed.
I want my country back.
Which is one of the reasons why I don’t think much will change even if the GOP takes back Congress in November. The people who will be running it - Boehner, Cantor, McConnell - are part of the problem, not part of the solution. It will take several election cycles to get anywhere near to where we want to go.
Then you mean never. I don’t think this country has that long as the country we know, unless something dramatic happens.
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