Your Friendly Neighborhood Rally Goers

[twowls 217]

And you think the Obama supporters in similar videos that proclaimed that the messiah was going to buy them gasoline, apartments, etc., etc. and that now "we run the show" are any more educated, smarter, or actually think for themselves? Really...considering that 95%+ of the black vote went for Obama. What's up with that? My favorite was the black chick that stated that she voted Democratic because she was black. And that's it! Talk about herd mentality! Just like a school of mullets.

But, of course, one video of one idiot paints the whole picture. Just like taking an opinion poll of 1 or 2 people would be definitive.

I think black people and poor people that vote Republican are voting against their own interests, so I would accept that woman's statement, actually.

And I know this is only one video. I just think the right-leaning people of this board post a lot of straw men and random ####### scorning the left, so I thought I'd drop by with just one of the billion things we on the left could point to, if we bothered. I don't think it's terribly much fun to attack, so I guess that's why we're underrepresented in that way. But then I feel that we seem somewhat voiceless. So.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Well exactly. I found this video helpful in that I'd been saying to myself, "Why won't they listen to logic??" After watching, I understood that there's no thinking happening. Asking for a legit debate from these people is like asking a quadriplegic to spot you.

But I think it's important in that context. We're not in a "debate." We assume people have the capacity for logic, intellectual accountability, honesty, critical thinking. That's just not so. If we familiarize ourselves with the terrain, we know better how to proceed. Theoretically. Or maybe we just position our mattresses closer to the cyanide vial. Either or.

http://www.reference.com/browse/superiority+complex

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

http://www.reference.com/browse/superiority+complex

You don't feel superior to the idiots in that video?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

You don't feel superior to the idiots in that video?

It takes all kinds to make the world. I didn't watch the video. The story here is the hate and bigotry in the OP's comments so far. But then again he/she/it is just another flavor in the Universe to add to its complexity.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Now that I have watched the first few minutes of the video, my conclusions are validated. Those are the same comments (in the video) that I hear all day from people, even in this Democratically safe district in Northern California. Sorry. The word is getting out about how Obama's plan for America sucks, just like they thought Bush's plan for America sucks. The number of true believers has gone from a overwhelming majority to a mere handful of sycophants, and even those are disappointed in the results so far.

[twowls 217]

http://www.reference...riority+complex

I think you mean "elite" and out of touch, right? Because god forbid anybody call out stupidity or fail to recognize the legitimacy of these people's wack world view. Whatever happens, the most important thing is to pretend every voice is as meaningful and worthy of respect as every other. The average is king.

One of the most embarrassing things about the recent political climate is this tyranny of the mediocre, this agreement that we have to prove our regular-guy cred and go to any lengths to obscure all evidence of "elitism": anything that might point to a distance between ourselves and the Average American--the average American being intellectually unengaged and chronically ignorant, poor and angry and insulated from the rest of the world.

Love me! Elect me! I don't need no stinking book learnin! I'm just like you!!!! Please believe meeee!!!

I'm not just like the people in that video. And as I'm not a politician, I don't have to pretend I am. The right has successfully put smart and educated people on the defensive about being smart and educated. Even blueblood legacy ivy leaguers on the right like Bush must dig holes and wear cowboy boots and remind you that they are Just Like You. Bullsh*t. But everybody understands: you must pretend you grew up with a 37-toed cat and one shoe to share around a family of 8, no chance at college and you must hunt your own dinner.

I noticed one of the things in the list of Tea Partier principles or whatever that It's a Madhouse posted was that average people should be in political office more or something. Please no. Are we officially to the point in our collective worship of the mediocre that we are willing to sacrifice our own well-being? I demand that our office holders and leaders be the cream of the f*cking crop, the smartest, wisest, most aware and dynamic people we can get. Smart people are still capable of compassion and common sense, still capable of acting in the interests of the stupid, the ignorant, and the less advantaged, all. They just do it with fewer misspellings.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yep. The tea party is a movement of, by and for, stupid people

[BethandBilly 86]

Here's what the Tea Party is about.

Mad Hatter Dale Robertson, after 22 years in the military now can relax and enjoy his pension (paid for by American taxpayers) and contribute to the anarchist cause. Man, I wish I could retire after 22 years, but that's Government employees for you.

Hey, just for the record the Military guys and girls pay income tax too, only time they don't is when they are in a war zone. My husband was a GI and he could never have afford to retire after 22 years service, so please don't lump all those guys together.

As for the video what a bunch of muppets, no free thinking, no knowledge behind their answers, no real sparks amongst that bunch interviewed. Hmmmmmmmmmm BAAAAAAAA

Edited September 5, 2010 by BethandBilly