Kinsley's singular talent is being wrong—about everything. I do mean everything. Since his article was a conglomeration of wrong, liberal thought I am taking a few minutes to point out the complete fallacy of what passes for logic. Kinsley wrote:
The press, both alarmed and delighted by this political force that sprang from nowhere, is eager to prove its lack of elitism and left-wing bias by treating the Tea Party activists with respect.
He should be happy to know that I'm not going to sue him even though it was because of his words that I spit my coffee on my computer. The press is treating Tea Party activists with respect? Really? Dude, you have to come out from under that rock from time to time. How you can make a claim like this baffles me. You are either one of the most ignorant people I've ever read or you really think the rest of us are so dumb we can't possibly see through your lies.
Kinsley then goes on to write:
The Tea Party movement has been compared...to the student protest movement of the 1960s.
Apparently offended by the comparison, he attempts to refute the claim and set up the anti-war movement of the 1960s as the morally superior group.
...although the 1960s featured plenty of self-indulgence, this wasn’t their essence. Their essence was selfless and idealistic: stopping the war; ending racism; eradicating poverty.....The Tea Party movement’s goals, when stated specifically, are mostly self-interested. And they lack poetry: cut my taxes; don’t let the government mess with my Medicare; and so on....the Tea Party’s atmospherics, all about personal grievance and taking umbrage and feeling put-upon, are a far cry from flower power.
First, if you really believe the 1960s were about being selfless you probably were smoking too much of what they were passing around at those anti-war rallies. There has never been a more self-indulgent time in the history of this country. They were so committed to bettering this country their mantra was “turn on, tune in and drop out”. Hardly an anthem you would expect from people who are truly crusading on the behalf of others.
Second, I doubt Kinsley has ever talked to a Tea Party person. I would suspect the majority of his information comes from that bastion of fair reporting, MSNBC. Most of the people who are upset with our country's current direction are not up in arms about their personal taxes, their personal health care (and so on as Kinsley so eloquently completes the thought). Instead, there is the overriding concern that this unsustainable course will result in future generations being saddled with unbelievable debt and a country collapsing from within.
While there is much more in this poorly thought out and clumsily written article to point out as complete idiocy, I recognize the need to keep this to a readable length. So the final point Kinsley makes that must be addressed is this:
In their rhetoric, the Tea Party Patriots do not sound as if they love their country very much: they have nothing but gripes. Yes, of course, these are gripes against the government, not against the country itself. But that distinction becomes hard to maintain when you have nothing good to say about the government and nothing but whines to offer the country.
It really does no good to make a point and then in the next sentence explain why your point is in fact pointless. Again, he demonstrates that he has no grasp on what Tea Party people and conservatives in general actually believe and stand for. It is not government that's the problem. It is big government. Government that runs as detailed in our founding documents is necessary and probably the best form of governance ever created by man.
The “whines” are not about the country. They are complaints about the direction the country is being taken in by people who have absolutely no respect for the Constitution or our republic form of government. The truth is, much more than whines are being offered. There are real, concrete proposals and they are simple, common sense.
Kinsley and the other far-left liberals will continue to try to define the Tea Party and any other conservative group. They can not, however, defeat the ideology. You can not defeat what you have not taken the time to understand. In the months leading up to the coming election you will see more and more instances of Tea Party Denial Syndrome (TPDS).
Symptoms include repeatedly saying the following lines:
- All Tea Party members are really old people
- The Tea Party is racist
- The Tea Party is just a passing fad
There will also be much weeping as liberal candidates (in both parties) are dealt crushing defeats at the ballot box. The only cure for TPDS is to engage the common sense center of your brain and begin to think rationally and logically. Unfortunately, for most people suffering from TPDS that area of the brain has been irreparably atrophied by lack of use.
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