Restoring Honor

[Tinker]

Here is the thing that is bothering me about the Tea Party. How can a guy like Glenn Beck be taken seriously as someone who will 'restore honor'. This guy is Howard Stern in Conservative drag. I would have sympathy, and a lot of it for the Tea Party if there were some consistency and a sense of REAL honor. But if you bring up these ideas you just get shouted down and ignored. Glenn Beck is a man who made his name by ridiculing a woman for having a miscarriage publically on his radio show. How can a man like that 'restore honor'? Glenn Beck is seriously an evil man, misleading what seems to be an army of morons. How can we take them seriously if they do not see the wolf in their midst?

The idea of taking back local control is very near and dear to my heart, but it seems mostly like an excuse for hate and ignorance. The restoration of honor is a worthy goal, but shouldn't we look to honorable leaders or even better yet, when our movement is based on self-reliance, look toward honor in ourselves?

[YMix]

The Tea Party movement is a waste of time. In order to amount to anything in politics, they'll have to ally themselves with one of the two party syndicates. Which means that the Republicans will use the TP worse than a condom and then dump them in the garbage. They'll keep those amenable to compromises (provided they have any electoral value) and bury the radicals. It's happened before and it will happen again. The Democrats play the same game with left-wing movements.

[Tinker]

True. But that's beyond what I'm talking about. I'm wondering about the complete lack of self-reflection that allows people to follow a dishonorable motherfucker like Gleen Beck around and take his exhortations about honor seriously.

[YMix]

I've kinda stopped wondering about why people follow stupid fucks.

[Colonel Sun]

And I used to think that Network was a wicked satire.

[Tinker]

Heh, I always thought Network was precisely on point. Nothing has changed that notion for me.

[Mattmovies]

Tea Party rallies suck. If you go there to pick up chicks (as if there was another reason to go to a rally) all you can come home with is an angry seventy five year old.

Why do people follow Glen Beck? Because if you advertise to a group that doesn't normally get invited to things, they will show up. Tea Party is just the disenfranchised post middle class white people's club. Funny, they probably are mostly coffee drinkers.

[Ibrahim]