re: #202 HappyWarrior

It is also a bunch of Americans whose vision of America is an America that never was. Their America that they get nostalgic America was an America where rampant homophobia, sexism, and racism was still a problem. Not that it’s gone today but we’ve gotten better. But even on the economic front, the U.S in the 1950’s and even 1970’s was much more closer to being a welfare state than we are today. ACA would have been to the right of what Nixon proposed in the 70’s.

All very true. At the core of it, the Tea Party folks are deeply afraid; they have great anxiety about their place in a rapidly changing society and world. They fear that they will be life’s losers, that others will do well and succeed and where they have failed; there’s also envy and resentment of others present as well.