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Tea Memories

by: Dean Barker

Sun Apr 04, 2010 at 21:26:05 PM EDT


Jack Kimball, Republican candidate for governor:
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - In New Hampshire, the Tea Party is a loose affiliation among more than two dozen groups ranging from the Christian Home Educators of New Hampshire to the Granite State Taxpayers.

...Granite State Patriots founder Jack Kimball says the coalition came together a year ago when leaders of the individual groups helped organize a large tax-day protest in Manchester.

That would be the protest that included these signs:
Dean Barker :: Tea Memories



Of course, the Obama stimulus package contained the largest middle-class tax cut in like, ever, giving folks on average a nearly 10% increase in refund on their taxes this year, but whatever.  
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Perspective. (0.00 / 0)
It's all about perspective.  If you're seeing things from the perspective of the country club gang, then the counter to "tax and spend" is "lend and spend."  Or, more precisely, "we lend what you can spend."
Moreover, to be taxed is to be "tasked"--i.e. put under an obligation.  Obligation is perceived to be inconsistent with freedom because, if the only choice is to do what you're told or not, then freedom resides in saying "no."  Obligation represents the ability to recognize one's responsibilities and shoulder them willingly.  "I am obliged."  The conservative mindset perceives responsibility as something that is imposed.  

Conservatives expect to be directed.  Some don't even know what self-direction is.  Which is why they are fixated on propaganda.  They are convinced that people do what they are told and, if they don't, it's because it hasn't been told to them with enough force.  So, their leaders just have to try harder.  We make a mistake when we expect conservatives to do the right thing on their own.


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