If Tea Partiers are such deluded fools, why are they doing so well?

The Telegraph ^ | 10/26/2010 | Daniel Hannan

[Palmetto Patriot]

First, Leftie commentators ignored the Tea Party: throughout the summer of 2009, its rallies were barely covered except by Fox. Then, as it grew, they sneered at it: what a lamentable gaggle of rednecks, birthers, truthers, stump-toothed Appalachian mountain men and assorted survivalists. When these laughable Frondistes began to win primaries, pundits assured each other that they had made Republican Party unelectable. Now, with a week to go before polling day, and the GOP comfortably ahead in the polls, columnists have had to come up with a new line. Predictably, they have hit on the argument that Tea Partiers are a bunch of thickos, dupes being manipulated by powerful Right-wing corporations.

There is a classic of the genre in today’s Guardian. George Monbiot describes the Tea Party as “one of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has seen”, and goes on to explain that the poor, deluded saps who turn up to its meetings are puppets on the strings of two wealthy industrialists, Charles and David Koch.

A telling phrase, that, “false consciousness”. It was coined by Friedrich Engels, and became a mainstay of Marxist theory. Marx argued that, because proletarians didn’t always understand their true interests, democracy was open to abuse. Reactionary and bourgeois elements could make the workers think that they wanted one thing, when what they really needed was something else. It was the doctrine of false consciousness which Lenin and, later, Stalin, used to justify their tyranny.

[Palmetto Patriot]

"Having cast the Tea Party as a deranged rabble, Leftie commentators must explain how these lunatics took over the asylum. Perhaps they should consider the most obvious explanation: that they might not in fact be lunatics."

[Bigh4u2]

"columnists communists have had to come up with a new line.

Fixed!

[dead]

The Internet has broken the old cartels; pundits have lost their powers. We are finally approximating the ideal of government of, by and for the people – and, unsurprisingly, not everyone likes it.

Very good article.

[kittymyrib]

And not a mention of George Soros, the really evil bankroller to the Left, of course. The Leftists and their media enablers follow Alinsky’s tactic to accuse your opponent of doing what you are actually doing yourself.

[Palmetto Patriot]

For those unfamiliar with Daniel Hannan, he first came to my attention after I viewed this video of his speech before the European Parliament:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs

[Le Chien Rouge]

The lefties around here-Austin-have given their reasons why the tea parties are successful:

1) Racist—(of course)
2) Brainwashed by Fox,Beck and Limbaugh
3) Enchanted by Sarah Palin’s looks
4) Uniformed of the REAL facts by proper news organizations—NPR
5) Xenophobic of all cultures other then Anglo—(a La Raza supporter actually said this)
6) Voting against their economic interests by being Controlled by corporate America
7) Conservative Christians wanting to put women back in the kitchen—(as spoken by a feminist)

[Palmetto Patriot]

The lefties around here-Austin-have given their reasons why the tea parties are successful

What these fools believe, they see.

[Mouton]

For one to argue the popular Tea Party is composed of lunatics, one would have to also contend those who voted for (o)bama were insane. I am waiting for the Media to make that connection you know like (o)bama believes the conservatives are a bunch of gun loving bible toting red necks.

[rickb308]

I’ll accept #3. Possibly #5, depending on which culture wants to kill me because I am not of their culture.
#7? No way. Stay the h*ll out of my kitchen. Took me a long time to acquire my Henkle knives & get my cast iron seasoned properly.

[SE Mom]

The answer is easy- Katie Couric told us this week- we are the great unwashed.