You might be a Tea Bagger if...

[longfisher]

A scholar indeed! One of the most intelligent posts on here...

If you think the "right" will fix the doings of the "left"... you're an idiot. It's that simple.

The issue we are dealing with is the establishment of government (left and right)... and those who actually run the show. Guess what? It isn't Obama, nor is it Bush. Same circus, different clowns. Change the circus and then you'll see a difference. Right Left Paradigm is the oldest shellgame on the books.

Iv'e been saying this since I came here, interrupted only with self-satisfying jabs at those who most believe in left and right, the Republicans.

S&B, as long as Bankers and Wall Street figure prominently in the list of those who truly hold the reins I'm in agreement with what you say.

There's been an incessant fraud perpetrated by the wealthy on the rest of us that the middle class is both neatly and necessarily separated into two waring camps, right and left. This fraud is, sadly, easily perpetuated because of the very limited intelligence and even more limited logic capacities of the right, particularly the religious right who are utterly bereft of the ability to reason, and because of the very real fear on the left of right-wing totalitarianism and authoritarianism. So, the real buggers go unnoticed...the wealthy class who are hell-bent on our enslavement.

But maybe there's hope, even on SFM.com, that the right is lifting the veil. I refer to Marine's post above and several others of late, particularly by Glenn W.

My view, don't take up arms agains the left. It'd be too easy. But that's not why one shouldn't do it. It's because like our invasion of Iraq when we probably should has bolstered our efforts where Al Queda really was (Afghanistan and Pakistan), we'd be missing the real target.

Class warfare has long been a fact of life in America (since the '70s, I think). Isn't it time we gave up the guns and traded them for pitchforks and torches?

LF

[longfisher]

Your "Copy & Paste" skills are most impressive.

Let's debate.

A challenge accepted. Lets' start here:

22. You love America but when your opponents exercise the very Democratic principles which make it great, like free speech; separation of church and state; a free and open press; freedom of religion; checks and balances; freedom from persecution; and civil rights for all you want to tear out their livers.

And, that makes the Tea Baggers (funny little Sado-Masochistic meaning originally lost of the Tea Baggers, by the way) nothing but mere hypocrites...something you can find in virtually every gutter in America.

LF

[SKULL & BONES]

A challenge accepted. Lets' start here:

22. You love America but when your opponents exercise the very Democratic principles which make it great, like free speech; separation of church and state; a free and open press; freedom of religion; checks and balances; freedom from persecution; and civil rights for all you want to tear out their livers.

And, that makes the Tea Baggers (funny little Sado-Masochistic meaning originally lost of the Tea Baggers, by the way) nothing but mere hypocrites...something you can find in virtually every gutter in America.

LF

1. As once stated by one of our country's greatest minds... "It's a REPUBLIC, if you can keep it". Not a Democracy, but a RE_PUB_LIC. Everyone... say it with me... REPUBLIC. For the slow or the brain-washed media koolaide induced crowd, learn the difference between a Democracy and a Republic.

So let's start there...

I won't get into the TeaParty pros & cons as the media is doing what they can to PORTRAY a flag draped conservative with a gun in one hand and a Gadsen Flag in the other. The biggest problem with the populace is not putting an end to ANYONE referring to our system of government as a democracy and putting an immediate end to it. But I refuse to refer to them in a derogatory way as I think their hearts are in the right place, but the majority doesn't understand the true history and concept of our nation.... neither does the right or left.

Rise above the BS and give them their respect. Then... help educate.

[longfisher]

1. As once stated by one of our country's greatest minds... "It's a REPUBLIC, if you can keep it". Not a Democracy, but a RE_PUB_LIC. Everyone... say it with me... REPUBLIC. For the slow or the brain-washed media koolaide induced crowd, learn the difference between a Democracy and a Republic.

So let's start there...

I won't get into the TeaParty pros & cons as the media is doing what they can to PORTRAY a flag draped conservative with a gun in one hand and a Gadsen Flag in the other. The biggest problem with the populace is not putting an end to ANYONE referring to our system of government as a democracy and putting an immediate end to it. But I refuse to refer to them in a derogatory way as I think their hearts are in the right place, but the majority doesn't understand the true history and concept of our nation.... neither does the right or left.

Rise above the BS and give them their respect. Then... help educate.

Hey, S&B! That's not debating at all. You're just rightfully correcting, not debating.

Don't you know that to debate you have to say things to which I'd take issue? You've certainly not done so above.

WHATSAMATTAYOU?

LF