Apr 06 2010

How Democrats Created the Tea-Baggers

From a recent column about Democrats and tea-baggers, by the great war-reporter Chris Hedges at truthdig.com…

We are bound to a party that has betrayed every principle we claim to espouse, from universal health care to an end to our permanent war economy, to a demand for quality and affordable public education, to a concern for the jobs of the working class. And the hatred expressed within right-wing movements for the college-educated elite, who created or at least did nothing to halt the financial debacle, is not misplaced. Our educated elite, wallowing in self-righteousness, wasted its time in the boutique activism of political correctness as tens of millions of workers lost their jobs.

The blame lies with us. We created the monster.

Tea-baggers articulate their rage like idiots, and Democrats explain it away like idiots, but all of us, black and white, middle-class and working-class, Latinos and Native Americans, old and young…

All of us were betrayed by the Democrats, and their bullshit “explanations” are more of the same.

“Republicans are even worse!”

But we weren’t betrayed by Republicans, who never promised to protect us against the mega-banks and multi-national corporations.

The Democratic Party is analogous to a completely corrupt police department, which constantly excuses its own corruption by claiming that gangsters are even worse.

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  1. Past and future…

    The language of violence always presages violence. I watched it in war after war from Latin America to the Balkans. The impoverishment of a working class and the snuffing out of hope and opportunity always produce angry mobs ready to kill and be killed. A bankrupt, liberal elite, which proves ineffectual against the rich and the criminal, always gets swept aside, in times of economic collapse, before thugs and demagogues emerge to play to the passions of the crowd. I have seen this drama. I know each act. I know how it ends. I have heard it in other tongues in other lands. I recognize the same stock characters, the buffoons, charlatans and fools, the same confused crowds and the same impotent and despised liberal class that deserves the hatred it engenders.

    Our continued impotence and cowardice, our refusal to articulate this anger and stand up in open defiance to the Democrats and the Republicans, will see us swept aside for an age of terror and blood.

    • Edger on April 6, 2010 at 19:45
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    help this bullshit along tremendously too. With all the the focus and screeching about teabaggers and republicans people are distracted from paying attention to what the party who controls both houses of congress and the white house does.

    Never mind that US foreign policy under the democrats has neocons jumping for joy, and domestic policy under democrats is giving wall street and ‘health’ insurers multiple orgasms.

  3. You have to specify.

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