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Bastions

What do you expect from a movement that quite literally requires ignorance to participate? That’s all the Tea Party is; a movement which revels in and requires from each and every participant a certain amount of ignorance to things like “facts,” “figures,” “reality,” and “common sense.” I’m not even talking about the really deep details either, I’m talking about things like whether or not a universal single-payer healthcare system was recently signed into law by the President. I’m talking about when TARP came into being and who voted for it. I’m talking about when certain states were added to the Union. I won’t even get into the hypocrisy and short-term memory loss that’s so common in this movement that I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ll soon discover there’s a carrier gene.

It’s the last bastion for the idiots… .

Tea Partiers are generally better educated than others. That doesn’t mean that they’re better informed that the average citizen, but I’d be willing to bet they are. This is no big compliment—the average citizen in this country is extremely ignorant. Obama was elected by extremely ignorant people; Bush was elected by extremely ignorant people. Republicans and Democrats, by and large, are extremely ignorant people. Their stupid slogans (“Yes We Can” “Change You Can Believe In” “Moving America Forward”) are aimed to sway extremely ignorant people.

I think there are a lot of bastions for idiots … I don’t think we’re down to the last one.

Source: brooklynmutt