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From what I’ve been reading the Tea Party is shaping up to be a real factor in the mid-term elections this year. Which is a little weird when you think about it. After the rather dismal if not downright frightening performance of the Republicans the last time they held the reins one wouldn’t immediately think to look to what is essentially the radical wing of the Republican Party as a likely source of answers, but it turns out that many conservatives are doing just that. What’s all that about?
Well, it’s obviously a protest vote; not much question about that. Like many of the rest of us the Tea Party folks are angry, but their anger seems to be leading them down a rather surreal path. Now, confused liberal that I am, I would have thought that people might be a little angry because government regulators under the last Republican administration were asleep at the wheel and allowed dubious, risky, and apparently all but incomprehensible financial instruments to proliferate, which made a few people in the financial industry very, very wealthy, but which ultimately led to widespread bad investments in a hugely speculative real estate bubble that, when it finally burst, nearly sent us into a repeat of the Great Depression (and did, in fact, send us into a sort of Great Recession, which still has had very serious consequences for many, many people)... Sorry but only selected archived (previous year) posts are currently available full text on this website. All posts including this one are available in my annual anthology ebook series available at the Amazon Kindle Bookstore for a nominal fee. Hey, we all need to make a buck somehow, right? If you find my timeless jewels of wisdom amusing or perhaps even amusingly irritating throw me a bone now and then. Thank you my friends!
