re: #29 TedStriker

I used to say it a lot, that the Tea Party (and the sort of people who listen to Glen Beck) aren’t really a right wing cause, it’s a revolt of the stupid against not only the rule of people smarter and less ignorant than they are, but against any policy that isn’t stupid enough for them to have come up with it themselves.

In the economic downturn they felt like their suffering must be a sign that they were being taken advantage of, and in a sense they were right. They were just way too stupid to figure out who takes advantage of them and how. That knowledge is the sort of thing that could only come from those educated people that they decided must be the problem