i don’t know anything about the tea party
April 19th, 2010 | Published in Dialogue, Politics | 1 Comment
but i do know that the common liberal/democrat reaction of laughing/mockery is completely wrong.
i am concerned with the tea party because of it’s incredibly fascist undertones, coupled with the class struggle which all of america is going through right now. while the hateful language of the tea party is more than a little cause of worry, the problems that gave rise to those feelings are the same problems that have liberals calling for financial reform, the same class exploitation that drives us towards marxist analysis.
dismissing the tea party is dismissing the concerns and legitimacy of poor whites. we must not let ourselves buy into stereotypes of poverty, forgetting that poverty and class exploitation is more than urban, more than black.
in any case, conservative thought and the tea party in particular fascinates me, because i don’t understand it. there is a completely coherent worldview in there. it’s also diametrically opposed to my own. the fact that there are two such different interpretations of reality itself is fascinating.
this post sparked by a rather in-depth article in the philly citypaper.
April 20th, 2010 at 11:20 pm (#)
The hardest thing to accept and understand about conservative thought in this country is not that the view point is so radical but that they feel so strongly about it.
The only thing that I have found to explain that is brainwashing from an early age: not just of the view point but that any outside opinions from liberals/etc should not be considered. I just can’t wrap my mind around the fact that an entire group of persons can completely disregard any information or opinions which might challenge their own views. And at the same time as I say this, religious/social and economic conservatives are thinking this same thing about liberals, that liberals are so closed minded…