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.
Disagree. In Tolkien's narrative the Hobbits were clearly an analog for simple English villagers that he grew up around. They want to live life without the bother of the ambitious and the power hungry. The Tea Party are those same simple folk, transplanted into our modern era, who have reluctantly decided to get involved. A few years back they were being denigrated as the inhabitants of "flyover states". Nobody cared about them and they didn't matter, until they decided to get involved and upset the status
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday July 28, 2011 @12:35PM (#36909830)
You gotta be fucking kidding me. There is nothing simple, wholesome, grassroots, or legitimate about any teaparty candidate. It's an image that's been sold to you and nothing else. These people did not "decide to get involved" there were handpicked by rich conservative interests to front for extreme pro-business and pro-wealthy agenda.
Recent effective uncapping of campaign contributions let private investors buy elections with unrelenting media saturation. You just don't care to question where the money came from. Nobody has ever been to a teaparty fundraiser.
Their voting record reveals the truth. Complete lockstep, unwavering synchronization. Zero deviation among the ranks of a group of people that are supposed to be 'grassroots', 'mavericks', and 'fiercely independent'. They're employees, not politicians.
Fake politics, fake people, fake values, fake truth. This is the modern republicanism. Real conservatives are gone.
"Their voting record reveals the truth. Complete lockstep, unwavering synchronization. Zero deviation among the ranks"
That would match the Democrat and Republican statistics. Most of our current "representatives" could be replaced with central party robots without anyone noticing.
"Spock, did you see the looks on their faces?"
"Yes, Captain, a sort of vacant contentment."
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:4, Interesting)
Re:Obviously McCain doesn't understand the story (Score:4, Insightful)
You gotta be fucking kidding me. There is nothing simple, wholesome, grassroots, or legitimate about any teaparty candidate. It's an image that's been sold to you and nothing else. These people did not "decide to get involved" there were handpicked by rich conservative interests to front for extreme pro-business and pro-wealthy agenda.
Recent effective uncapping of campaign contributions let private investors buy elections with unrelenting media saturation. You just don't care to question where the money came from. Nobody has ever been to a teaparty fundraiser.
Their voting record reveals the truth. Complete lockstep, unwavering synchronization. Zero deviation among the ranks of a group of people that are supposed to be 'grassroots', 'mavericks', and 'fiercely independent'. They're employees, not politicians.
Fake politics, fake people, fake values, fake truth. This is the modern republicanism. Real conservatives are gone.
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By European, and even by Canadian standards, the Democrats are a conservative party.... What's gone in the US is liberalism.
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Strong words...too bad you don't believe them.
People stand behind their words when they matter. When they don't, they're just useless whispers from the shadows... Anonymous Coward.
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"Their voting record reveals the truth. Complete lockstep, unwavering synchronization. Zero deviation among the ranks"
That would match the Democrat and Republican statistics. Most of our current "representatives" could be replaced with central party robots without anyone noticing.