Stand Your Ground
20th September 2009, 19:41
On Sept 12, 09 in Washington DC the Tea Party Express with its obvious connection to Fox News, especially Glenn Beck, ended with an uncomfortably large rally. This movement or right-wing organizing heavily funded and supported by the pundit-right in the US has taken to the streets and their organizing should be taken seriously even though it is hard after hearing what these "protesters" have to say. Though the people at the rally are completely confused over their own positions, political views, and do not really know much of anything concerning current social and political developments they did answer the call to get in line and oppose whatever the talking heads have to say.
This is extremely unsettling, thousands of people being mobilized under an exploited collective ignorance based on generations of lies and legitimized propaganda (Fox News, etc...). More importantly, is that these people did not come together to voice their view against the supposed "universal" healthcare system. No, the healthcare issue is just an opportunity for the right to come out and further legitimize their bigoted:
"family values", homophobia, pro-Americanism which masks their unquestioning loyalty to the free-market, politically correct and masked racism, reactionary fear of anything beyond their understanding which is based an ignorant nationalist narrative that can justify any type of bigotry or action.
We have already seen this type of legitimized bigotry happen with the language of support concerning the murder of Dr. George Tiller earlier this year. It is all connected because this is the right-wing collectively acting, supporting, legitimizing, and marching forward under its banners of exclusion, hate, bigotry, racism, xenophobia, and capitalism.
This moment of extreme opportunism has been greatly exploited by pundits and the right-wing of any flavor to voice their dangerous views. The Tea Party Express and movements like it has given a platform to:
white-power advocates (nazis), right-wing pundits, loyal followers of Fox News, white Americans who have a revisionist and romantic view of American history ( you can usually recognize these people because they dress in colonial costumes), christian fanatics, socially conservative and contradictory libertarians, etc...
The Tea Party is not an attack on healthcare reform, it is the mobilization of the American right for the free market and their weapon is a collection of bigotry, exclusionary politics, fear, patriotism/nationalism, and racism. The threat is that Fox News and right-pundits talk, people take to the streets, and the right-wing is further legitimized. They are not just attacking President Obama or democrats. No more importantly, the right is attacking the legitimacy of the left.
They are attacking the potential for quantitative, possibly qualitative change, the radical left, our views, and the fear that something might actually happen. And where are we? It should be opposed! maybe something can happen? The autonomous-left has missed the first opportunity to strike out against the right. Our current situation is that the right-wing mobilized thousands and thousands of people all over the country and in Washington DC (which has been our stage for battle for a decade now) and we sat by. The right will not always show up in brown shirts but their goals are very similar.
http://lookatthisfuckingteabagger.com/
This is extremely unsettling, thousands of people being mobilized under an exploited collective ignorance based on generations of lies and legitimized propaganda (Fox News, etc...). More importantly, is that these people did not come together to voice their view against the supposed "universal" healthcare system. No, the healthcare issue is just an opportunity for the right to come out and further legitimize their bigoted:
"family values", homophobia, pro-Americanism which masks their unquestioning loyalty to the free-market, politically correct and masked racism, reactionary fear of anything beyond their understanding which is based an ignorant nationalist narrative that can justify any type of bigotry or action.
We have already seen this type of legitimized bigotry happen with the language of support concerning the murder of Dr. George Tiller earlier this year. It is all connected because this is the right-wing collectively acting, supporting, legitimizing, and marching forward under its banners of exclusion, hate, bigotry, racism, xenophobia, and capitalism.
This moment of extreme opportunism has been greatly exploited by pundits and the right-wing of any flavor to voice their dangerous views. The Tea Party Express and movements like it has given a platform to:
white-power advocates (nazis), right-wing pundits, loyal followers of Fox News, white Americans who have a revisionist and romantic view of American history ( you can usually recognize these people because they dress in colonial costumes), christian fanatics, socially conservative and contradictory libertarians, etc...
The Tea Party is not an attack on healthcare reform, it is the mobilization of the American right for the free market and their weapon is a collection of bigotry, exclusionary politics, fear, patriotism/nationalism, and racism. The threat is that Fox News and right-pundits talk, people take to the streets, and the right-wing is further legitimized. They are not just attacking President Obama or democrats. No more importantly, the right is attacking the legitimacy of the left.
They are attacking the potential for quantitative, possibly qualitative change, the radical left, our views, and the fear that something might actually happen. And where are we? It should be opposed! maybe something can happen? The autonomous-left has missed the first opportunity to strike out against the right. Our current situation is that the right-wing mobilized thousands and thousands of people all over the country and in Washington DC (which has been our stage for battle for a decade now) and we sat by. The right will not always show up in brown shirts but their goals are very similar.
http://lookatthisfuckingteabagger.com/