Preach It

Preach It!

"Concerned American" writes of his observation of cognitive dissonance en mass at the Atlanta TEA Party he attended. Excerpt:

As I stood listening to the speakers, I kept listening and looking around for any signs (literally and figuratively) that folks actually understood politics in Comrade Barry "We Won" Soetero's America, circa 2009.

The closest I saw?

One woman I spotted on my way to the transit station holding a sign which simply said, "Peaceful Attempt".

But if I gotten up on stage and said, "Do you understand that by demanding the elimination of socialism from this country -- which you claim to want -- you are implicitly and necessarily demanding the end of

- Social Security;
- Medicare;
- Medicaid;
- the new prescription drug benefit for geezers;
- Federal aid to local schools;
- the deductibility of mortgage interest;
- subsidized student loans; and
- a myriad of other government transfer payments?",

I would have been booed off the stage, at best.

Read the whole thing. Twice. Then pass it around.