Funny, most of the folks I saw at Tea Party events looked quite successful. I talked to some who were small business owners. And the guy whose campaign I volunteered for this year, who was a typical Tea Party-type candidate, has built his dad's small plumbing business into a regional distributorship and had enough coin to put a half-million into his own campaign.
Yet another example of the left having absolutely no idea what the Tea Party is about - and having no desire to make any effort to find out.
More than any other class, the Tea Party is a creature of small business. And the Republican Party is the only political instrument small business has.
My sis, the social worker, still cleaves to the notion that the GOP is the party of fat cats, inherited wealth and big business.
Patiently, I explain to her that Wall Street and the trust fund babies are almost unanimously in bed with the Democrats, while big business will merely support whoever's in power.
And that the backbone of the GOP today are the car-dealers, the druggists, the independent bankers, the oil field supply operators and the wheat farmers right there in her home town. I.e., the people that show up for Tea Parties in Hays, Kansas.
She, like a good little liberal, denies the obvious -- because it doesn't agree with what she "knows".
In 2008, McCain carried Ellis County by 66-32. It has not occurred to her that the 32 is essentially her and the faculty at Fort Hays State. And the 66 is everybody else.
As you noted, arguing these points with liberals is generally pointless. The argument is for everybody else.
But, importantly, small business is the very backbone of the Tea Party and the Republican base. And, if Obama has his way, we'll become an endangered species...