techstepgenr8tion wrote:
0_equals_true wrote:
She is proper nuts but there is a couple good points in there somewhere:
1. These 'teabaggers' have little to do with the history of the Boston Tea Party. It shows a fundamental lack of imagination, poor understanding of the history and propensity for vague associations to link to it.
If one's to look at the symbolism directly its to call the current congress as detatched from the will of the people as the British monarchs were in the pre-revolutionary era. Some hyperbole but still effective in correlation.
Yes, people protesting taxation without representation are the same as a fringe of the ultraconservative movement protesting customary stimulus measure being implemented in a time of depression.
techstepgenr8tion wrote:
0_equals_true wrote:
2. Why weren't they protesting during the Bush administration?
The economy was growing during that time, economic growth was almost keeping astride of the spending, and for the kinds of spending being proposed - the internal and domestic, no one usually wants to complain about that (where he really spent like a drunk sailor) and foreign issues such as Iraq and Afghanistan you have plenty of people who still believe that those were fought for good reason; I know a lot of people here particularly have a lot of vitriol toward that opinion but it still doesn't stifle the notion that there were and still are effective arguments to that end.
The economy was
ruined by Bush's massive corporate tax cuts, tax cuts for the wealthy, entitlement spending, financial deregulation (at a time when Canada's Liberal [1], with pressure from Canada's social democratic NDP, were regulating the financial system thus sparing the Canadian financial sector.
Even at the end, the "fiscal conservatives" never protested Bush's recklessness. It was only when Barack Obama, a Democrat who many ultraconservatives absurdly claim got in due to "affirmative action", took power did the protests begin.
And looking at the sheer assemetrical response: a Democratic Congress bowing to Bush's wishes versus a Republican rump doing everything to obstruct Democratic plans.
If Obama were an actually good politican he'd be steamrolling the Republicans right now.
NOTE
1. Capitalize "L" denotes Liberal as pretaining to Liberal Party of Canada rather than simply an ideological liberal.