This blog post I'm linking to here is something everyone should read.
I'm warning you though, the racist images shown are very difficult to stomach. I almost stopped reading as soon as I saw the first picture. The Tea Party movement in this country has dredged up a lot of very ugly behavior from the worst of our society. And it is very troubling.
Reading this, I realize how ludicrous it is when someone points to the election of President Obama as proof that our society has moved beyond its racist past. We clearly haven't and I fear that it's moving in the wrong direction.
Right wing politics these days is driven by corporate greed, but somehow they've managed to package and sell it to millions of people as middle class and lower middle class populism. I think half the Tea Party has been duped into thinking they are voting in their best interest when it is actually just the opposite. And I think the other half of the Tea Party is just happy to finally have a platform from which to spew their uneducated racist bullshit without fear of being run out of town.
This blog post by a former Chicago Sun Times reporter is a stark look at the reality that has come to us along with the Tea Party movement.
Click here to read it.
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