Dear Tea Baggers,
I am convinced that close to 90% of you have no clue what you’re even protesting.
If it’s the debt or the deficit, where were you the last eight years? You scream about ignoring the Constitution, but when pressed for specific examples you stutter on about Socialism. Most of you don’t even know the definition of socialism, it’s just a buzzword your rich corporate sponsors injected into the debate to further their own agenda.
You shout people down in town halls while they talk about loved ones who were denied care by health insurance company "death panels." Classy.
And stop calling it a "government take over of health care," if anything, the current bills are the opposite, driving more people into the free-market health care system and making those insurers even wealthier. Shouldn’t that make you happy?
Also? Please stop bringing up the founding fathers. You did not know them. You do not have some sort of special access to their views on the current debate if they were alive today. For all you know, they would have voted for Barack Obama.
If you want to go back to the days of the founding fathers as your misspelled signs and civil war garb suggests, you will also have to give up the following:
- Cars
- Sneakers
- Fast food
- Telephones
- Chocolate chip cookies
- Fox News
- Medicare
- Rush Limbaugh
- Automatic weapons
I knew those last two would change your mind. Oh, and the founding fathers read….a lot, and not books by Glenn Beck.
Maybe you should start by reading the Constitution, I suggest Article I Section 8.
Sincerely,
Coffee Filterer
Ken Kupchik: Open Letter To The Tea Baggers – Really – Air America
