The Tea Party aren't Hobbits by any stretch of the imagination - hobbits are more like 1970's back-to-the-land hippie organic farmer types.
No, the Tea Party seems to be much more like the Easterlings, who's society has been thoroughly corrupted by promises of power regardless of the decency or lack thereof of the individual members. And Obama seems to be playing the role of Denethor, trying to hold back the tide but not really being able to do so and kinda ambiguous about where he's loyalties really lie.
There are Hobbits and then there are Frodo and his friends. The Hobbits pretty much kept to themselves, eating six meals a day, drinking, doing the minimal work, not really advancing the world is what we would call a productive manner. This is pretty much the Tea Party, whining because thier entitlements as white americans are going away.
This is really about entitlement. The US was founded based on the idea that birth did not define one's future. This was basically started in England with the Civil lis
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday July 28, 2011 @01:32PM (#36910604)
You really need to get out more; you obviously don't understand the story yourself.
The hobbits are quite hard-working individuals, though they tend to keep to themselves as a society and don't involve themselves in OPPs (Other Peoples' Problems). They may eat six meals a day, but they grow their own food, market what they can't eat and police themselves efficiently and quietly. They are absolutely nothing like whiners and entitlement-seekers, they merely want to be left alone to do what they do.
The Tea Party, on the other hand, is nothing like that. The Tea Party makes the Religious Right look like Centrists and the overall Republican party look slightly left of center. What we basically have now is one group that wants to seal off the US from all outside communication--the Concrete Wall isolationists, one group that believes the US should be a Christian-Only theological nation (remember why we left England in the 1600s?), one group that thinks our country needs to be completely and unrestricted Capitalist and one group that thinks we need to be fully supportive of its people even to the expense of those who can best afford it.
I'll tell you now that there is no country on this Earth that doesn't survive by some form of tax, whether it be a tribal society where everybody works to fill the common coffer to the most wealthy of oil producers who still requires their people to serve their nation either militarily or through some form of public service. There is no nation that gives everything away for free and there never will be as long as people and personalities are different.
No matter how you look at it, the issues are complex and there are no simple answers. Anyone trying to make you believe there are is doing nothing but scamming you. Watch your wallets because the ones trying hardest to force the issue are the ones most likely to rob you blind.
Obviously McCain doesn't understand the story (Score:5, Insightful)
The Tea Party aren't Hobbits by any stretch of the imagination - hobbits are more like 1970's back-to-the-land hippie organic farmer types.
No, the Tea Party seems to be much more like the Easterlings, who's society has been thoroughly corrupted by promises of power regardless of the decency or lack thereof of the individual members. And Obama seems to be playing the role of Denethor, trying to hold back the tide but not really being able to do so and kinda ambiguous about where he's loyalties really lie.
Re: (Score:2, Interesting)
This is really about entitlement. The US was founded based on the idea that birth did not define one's future. This was basically started in England with the Civil lis
Re:Obviously McCain doesn't understand the story (Score:0)
You really need to get out more; you obviously don't understand the story yourself.
The hobbits are quite hard-working individuals, though they tend to keep to themselves as a society and don't involve themselves in OPPs (Other Peoples' Problems). They may eat six meals a day, but they grow their own food, market what they can't eat and police themselves efficiently and quietly. They are absolutely nothing like whiners and entitlement-seekers, they merely want to be left alone to do what they do.
The Tea Party, on the other hand, is nothing like that. The Tea Party makes the Religious Right look like Centrists and the overall Republican party look slightly left of center. What we basically have now is one group that wants to seal off the US from all outside communication--the Concrete Wall isolationists, one group that believes the US should be a Christian-Only theological nation (remember why we left England in the 1600s?), one group that thinks our country needs to be completely and unrestricted Capitalist and one group that thinks we need to be fully supportive of its people even to the expense of those who can best afford it.
I'll tell you now that there is no country on this Earth that doesn't survive by some form of tax, whether it be a tribal society where everybody works to fill the common coffer to the most wealthy of oil producers who still requires their people to serve their nation either militarily or through some form of public service. There is no nation that gives everything away for free and there never will be as long as people and personalities are different.
No matter how you look at it, the issues are complex and there are no simple answers. Anyone trying to make you believe there are is doing nothing but scamming you. Watch your wallets because the ones trying hardest to force the issue are the ones most likely to rob you blind.