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Tea Party: a force for totalitarianism
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by ishambat | January 23, 2011 at 05:48 am
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The Tea Party types claim that they are protecting freedom. Nothing could be further from the truth.
First of all, the Tea Party types do not tolerate freedom. Where they operate, only the Tea Party line is tolerated and everything else is brutally attacked or destroyed. There is no freedom in the Tea Party or the communities in which the Tea Party is dominant; it is a totalitarian organization that wants to control every aspect of people's thought and behavior and exterminate everyone who differs from it in any way. There is freedom in parts of America; and it is parts of America that the Tea Party types like to attack. So to claim that they speak for freedom is a Big Lie. They do not speak for freedom nor do they tolerate freedom. It is a totalitarian ideology, and it is a totalitarianism that they want to make binding on the rest of America and on the rest of the world.
Secondly, as part of the Tea Party line is a set of obvious lies and paranoias. Everything from its claims of global warming as a UN hoax (scientists knew about global warming long before UN had anything to do with the matter), to claims of Obama as a Communist and totalitarian (if he were that then the Tea Party - both leaders and followers - would be in labor camps), to blaming Democrats for the debt or claiming that Clinton did not cut the debt or that tax cuts have always created prosperity. The Tea Party demands unconditional loyalty to its party line, including to the lies and insanities that are contained within it. George Orwell wrote that freedom means to say two plus two equals four, all else follows. The Tea Party denies people the right to do that. And that makes it a force not only for insanity and deception but also for totalitarianism.
Finally, both the rhetoric and the behavior of the Tea Party is that of classical totalitarians. From claiming that they are America (and that everyone else in a country of 300 million, most of them very little like them, isn't); to advocating overtly dictatorial tactics such as imprisoning or killing the liberal Democrats; to demanding unconditional obedience to their deceptions and insanities; to claiming that they are the people and for that reason should have absolute power over the country; to Joe Miller refusing to honor the will of the electorate and concede an election he lost until forced to do so by the court; the actions of the Tea Party are actions of classic totalitarians.
And it is important that people see and know just that.
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at 05:55 on January 23rd, 2011
Don't get excited about the tea party. First, Americans really don't like tea, they like beer. I am surprised that it hasn't happened yet, so I will launch it now: The All-American Beer Party where our symbol is Sam Adams.
at 17:19 on January 23rd, 2011
lol !
at 10:46 on January 23rd, 2011
If you knew what you were talking about you wouldn't post such idiotic rantings. There is no Tea Party. There are many Tea Party's and none have a hierarchy like would be found in the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. The Tea Party's have a very loose affiliation based on social networks but there is no one laying out an agenda like you have with the actual political party's. Here's a link to a BBC News article by a Washington reporter. It doesn't have any ridicule or belittlement written into it so you probably wont like it... or read it. LOL. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11317202
at 15:10 on January 23rd, 2011
That an organization does not have a hierarchy does not make it less hell-bent on totalitarianism. It is very much possible to use democratic methods for totalitarian ends, and Hitler did just that. The survivalists of 1990s used the "leaderless resistance" technique pioneered by the anarchists and was very much a force for bigotry and oppression in their communities. That they use a model that differs from ones used previously says nothing about their character or their aims.
at 11:53 on January 24th, 2011
The many and various Tea Party's are not organized into a cohesive whole, and each individual Tea Party has it's own take on events[mostly economic] ipso facto pax dominos you idiot there is no totalitarianism at play. If the fuk'un Tea Party's are not willing to coalesce into a political party with a united agenda how can they oppress simple-mined fear mongers like yourself who believe the tripe they glean from progressive liberal blogs and media. Use your head for more than a hat stand and start THINKING for yourself instead of KNEE-JERKING off a quick one every time Salon dot com spews forth their trash as knowledge. For someone who holds them-self up as an intellectual you ain't making it easy to accept with this type of drivel. You have less to worry about the Tea Party's in as much as you have to worry about the 18th Street Gang.
at 03:05 on January 25th, 2011
1. The Tea Party can't oppress me; I'm not in the United States.
2. I do not get my news from Salon.com.
3. As I said, and as you have failed to read, democratic means can be used and have been used for totalitarian purposes. Hitler used democratic process to come into power and create a totalitarian state, Ayatollah organized a popular revolution to create an Islamic Republic, and further on down the line.
4. A group that claims that it is the people and that everyone else isn't; that overtly advocates killing or imprisoning anyone who is not them; that claims that it is America and the other 250 million are not America; that shouts "Communist" or "liar" or "traitor" at anyone who does not submit to their party line; and that does not acknowledge an election defeat until forced to do so by court; is, in fact, totalitarian. And I have enough education and knowledge of history and politics to know just what people who practice such methods and rhetoric end up doing to countries in which they come into power.
at 05:19 on January 25th, 2011
In that case you ought to be more concerned with what the self-professed progressive liberals are up to. They assert their agenda is for your own good. At least the various Tea Party's are only speaking for themselves. Not for you or I. The trouble with you is you have spun the rhetoric gleaned from the few misdeeds from with in the crowd by a hysterical liberal media to represent the intent of the Tea Party's. First the Tea Party members were labeled radical conservatives by the left, then a racist organization, then a white power organization tied to the KKK, now you're attempting to paint them as advocates for a totalitarian regime. You're even going to the extreme of calling up Hitlesque and Stalinist imagery. Gimme a break. Oh wait. The Mongols are coming! The Mongols are coming! LOL.
at 20:04 on January 25th, 2011
It's the right-wingers that have been ridiculously portraying Obama as a Hitler, a Muslim terrorist, a Communist and a totalitarian. He is nowhere close to being any of these things.
As for my relation to "liberal" media, I have none. My opinions are mine. If anyone in the media or elsewhere finds them valuable, that's for the better.
at 22:55 on January 25th, 2011
Guess where they got that little idea? From eight years of liberal media, bloggers and "progressive liberal protesters showing images of GW dressed as a NAZI and giving the salute with slogans demanding he be hung or shot. So please, do the homework and forget about exacerbating the rhetoric of demonization. Or haven't you heard about the bipartisan "no labels" campaign yet?
at 23:49 on January 26th, 2011
Are you telling me that the Right must steal its ideas from the Left, as with Reagan conservatives appropriating the hippie anti-establishment rhetoric and the survivalists stealing the "leaderless resistance" model from the anarchists?
I, for one, remember no such portrayals, and I was in America until late 2006.
I would be perfectly happy to avoid labels and demonization. However you know as well as I do that me avoiding such things will have no effect on what Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck or Alex Jones choose to put out in public domain.
at 18:48 on January 27th, 2011
So your rule of thumb and justification is tit for tat? Ya. That's an intellectual response!---www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/08/nancys_nazi_shock_did_she_forget_the_bush_years_97812.html ------------------------Since I can't post the pictures myself here's a link that will inform you of the recent events you um...misremember.
at 22:21 on January 29th, 2011
Fairness and reciprocity are closely linked. As for Bush, there was definitely more in common between him and Hitler than between Obama and Hitler. For starters, he was not elected, whereas Obama was.
at 16:15 on February 1st, 2011
You always have your justifications for behaving no differently than those whom you demonize for the exact same behavior.
at 23:20 on February 3rd, 2011
It's not justification, it's deliberate.
I believe in meeting things at their level, instead of throwing good energy after the bad.
at 17:08 on February 1st, 2011
Ishambat, it's important to remember EVERY time that the old 'The left/liberals did it too!' nonsense is spouted, no officials of the Democratic Party or Democratic Party candidates were ever found making such statements to their constituents or as public statements to the media regarding President Bush, which, to the contrary is NOT the case with the Republican Party leadership and its members as they try to pay homage to their Right Wing base, the TEA Party.
Smoke and Mirrors: The Role of the TEA Party in American Politics
at 11:55 on January 23rd, 2011
Wow, you sound like the Alex Jones of the Left. I think you are going too far with this rant, but if it made you feel better.
at 12:47 on January 23rd, 2011
Want a Sam Adams?
at 15:15 on January 23rd, 2011
Make it Moosehead, he's Canadian.
at 15:42 on January 23rd, 2011
Sam Adams is a good beer, but I would prefer a Lug Tread.
at 15:51 on January 23rd, 2011
Never had one of those. Don't folks in Vancouver prefer microbrews?
at 15:20 on January 23rd, 2011
It's not about feeling better. I've studied history enough to know that anything can happen, and these people in their character and their goals are very much like real totalitarians.
at 15:43 on January 23rd, 2011
They remind me of the Bolsheviks!
at 15:58 on January 23rd, 2011
Which is hilarious since they are the ones portraying everyone else, even moderate Republicans and middle-of-the-road suburbanites, as Communists.
Their main point of similarity with Bolsheviks is their claim that they are the people and that everyone else isn't and that for that reason they belong running the country. And it's important to point out that they are not the people, and that there are 300 million people in America, most of whom are not the Tea Party and have better ideas than do they.
at 19:38 on January 23rd, 2011
Most people in America don't have a clue what's going on and don't care until they have their asses bitten.
at 04:21 on January 25th, 2011
"Most people in America don't have a clue what's going on and don't care until they have their asses bitten."
Americans would care if they had a clue. That problem could be considered the point here.
A totalitarian style democratic government, which America seems to more and more, and in many ways have today; creating a pronounced apathy and disillusionment of American voters and the American public in general; plus specific manipulation of democratic process/processes and ideals including soft censoring and manipulating electronic media. A somewhat technological militarization of social activity with curtailing of some basic human freedoms and privacies under the Patriot Act legislation. Misaligned government policies and official objectives hurting Americans and Americas way of life in significant and compelling ways. Creating a lost sense of 'national pride, effort, public participation and vision'.
This "Tea Party" movement and other such political movements and activities in America today are in someways a response to this corrupting and decay of basic American democratic principles, freedoms, privacy, and economic realities.
This specific and current "Tea Party" movement does at times parallel somewhat this totalitarian style of politics and rhetoric in America today_as ishambat points out somewhat in this articles focus.
at 03:09 on January 25th, 2011
Which is why it is important that they do know.
at 12:49 on January 27th, 2011
what I do not like about ishambat is, that he writes too slowly. He answers with a time gap. He should leave his family and move somewhere closer, for example to Lebanon or Turkey. Its good to live there, too.
at 11:55 on January 31st, 2011
Source: rightwingwatch.org
at 21:53 on January 31st, 2011
Reed wants to force oppression and deception on everyone, which makes him a totalitarian.
The even more sinister aspect of Christian Right is that they are not only totalitarians, but also apocalyptic totalitarians who want to destroy all life on Earth before their children have reached maturity and sabotage any and all efforts to avoid such an outcome. Then they claim ridiculously to have family values.
They've used scientists, mystics, philosophers, occultists, and others who have converted to Christianity, to take all the knowledge that they've acquired in their pursuits and use it to empower apocalyptic totalitarianism.
Out of what comes out of Christian Right, 50% are blatant lies; 30% are slimy manipulations; and the rest is part-truths made to seem like the whole truth.
They are the biggest conmen in America and have been since the movement was conceived.
at 11:49 on February 1st, 2011
The Teapartynationalism.com website has some very interesting information regarding the origins of the so called grassroots TEA Party across the U.S.
Aside from the generalized dismissal of the report, no one has refuted the information gathered, with the authors of the report mainly using the websites of the TEA Party organizations and information about individuals asked to participate at TEA Party events to substantiate and confirm the report's conclusions.