I am a subscriber to the following thought:

Conservatives think Liberals are wrong.
Liberals think Conservatives are evil.

When I write about a subject, I write about the position the other side has taken, their thoughts about the subject and so on. When people have written about me, they have attacked me personally. My illness has been attributed to the fact that I am a Conservative. In other words, I am Conservative; therefore I have a mental illness.

Then comes along this article: Free Speech or Hate Speech.

The opening says this:

It happened in the thirties, it happened in the sixties, and it’s happening again now. The public dialogue becomes so heated in troubled times that demagogues with media access, and conscience-challenged politicians pit one group against another for personal or political gain. Those who feel ignored and powerless begin to raise their voices and the conflict heats and simmers. Sides are chosen, people march in the street and hold rallies. After a series of frustrations, the extreme element becomes the loudest voice of protest and drowns out any chance for dialogue with the other side, and then the rhetoric turns ugly. As one side demonizes the other, the kettle boils over until some unhinged “law-abiding citizen” decides to alter history, and then somebody gets killed.

The author then disperses throughout the article men who have been assassinated, or had attempts against them. Civil Rights Pioneers, Presidents, college students and so on.

But the article goes on to describe those Americans who are part of the Tea Party movement as racist, gun toting and several other things.

In fact, this passage stands out for me:

I’d like to ask the folks who show up at these rallies one question: who do you suppose is paying for this cartoon caravan to traverse the nation’s highways, organizing pro-anarchy assemblies for the disgruntled elderly to follow around like a bunch of tie-dyed Deadheads? While the poor, oppressed white people howl about “taking their country back” from the evil, Fascist Democrats, they are being financed by ultra-conservative, billionaire families with names like Coors, Scaife, and Koch.

Hm. Kettle, meet pot. I’m quite sure the author has never heard of George Soros, who invested millions of dollars in the Gore and Kerry campaigns for President, and who funds various “grass roots” organizations. I am quite sure that Mr. Soros is not the only multibillionaire Liberal investor, I just don’t have the time to root them all out today.

Then you have this:

While the Tea Party Express rolls into town like a pack of demented carnival barkers and fleeces the “marks” for contributions to help overturn settled law, the calmer three-fourths of the populace look upon the spectacle like watching bad theatre.

Any law can be overturned, especially this one. I mean, we overturned a Constitutional Amendment. If we can do that, we can get rid of “universal” health care.

The author also has his percentages wrong as well. He makes it sound like 75% of the population was for universal health care, when in actuality 60% was against that monstrosity of a law. Why do you think there was such a hue and cry?

My major question at this point, why must anybody who disagrees with Liberals be labeled a racist? I don’t care about your skin color. I care about you say. I care about what you do. When someone starts talking about “spreading the wealth around” that is Liberal codespeak for wealth redistribution. I don’t care if you’re green with orange stripes, when you talk about taking my money away from me and giving it to someone else, well that gets me hot under the collar.

If you take it away from the rich, then they don’t have enough of their money to start or expand businesses and provide jobs for those who are unemployed. By a company getting so much work that they need more positions to handle the increased business. That’s the only way jobs are created. Even the government works that way, except they don’t have to make a profit.

The Tea Party movement is more than just the tip of the iceberg. Just because I’m not out at these parties, does not mean I’m not sympatric with their core beliefs, which are the government should listen to the people, not the government telling people what is good for them.

Final note:

You are defined by the company you keep. I thought I would comment on one of the comments that came through.

Gregg said:

The Republican party in the United States of America in the early 21st Century is beginning to look like the early National Socialist German Workers Party in what remained of a war torn Germany in the 1930s. A bunch of obviously overly frustrated wannabes who never had the intellect to get anything really creative done for society who want to show their dead daddies (who they thought hated their guts and certainly didn’t love them enough) how really strong they really are.

Oh, boy. Just what the world needs. More sad idiots who want power.

I rest my case as to my original premise. I go after positions, they go personal. It just shows they can’t use the truth, as it does not go in their favor.