Many today are crying and moaning, shedding tears, tearing hair and rending garments over something they call “my America”. They claim to “want it back” and for some reason think that Barack Obama, the nations first black President, is basically carjacking the nation from them.
Many on the left today will scorn and mock these God fearing wealthy white right wing American Christians, but I can see where they are coming from. After all they and their ilk used, abused and drained this country for their own gain long before the United States of America was a hope or a dream.
Their wealth and power, their feeling of supremacy and entitlement was gained by walking over anything and anyone that stood in their collective way. If it is one of their God’s creations in the form of the land or an animal, they have had no problems killing and destroying it. If it is a fellow human being who is different in any way they have had no problem using, enslaving, exploiting or making an enemy of them.
Today, thanks to the modern media we can see these seekers of “our lost America” in all their tear stained, tri-corner hat glory. We all are free to read their misspelled signs and are left to ponder just what nation their forefathers came from.
You can rest assured of one thing, the “lost America” they seek is not from very long ago. If you were to ask them if they wanted the America of old, where the dear and antelope played, where buffalo herds stretched for days, where the air and water were pure and clean and where white men were confined to starving little groups on one distant shore they would flat out say no!
Are they seeking the America of “We The People in Order to Form a More Perfect Union”? Obviously not, when they object to the first free and fair Presidential election our nation has held since the year 1996. Is it merely coincidence that that election was so one sided that they lost? In a landslide victory little things like confusing ballots, rigged computer voting machines, suspicious breakdowns of multiple voting machines in some districts and the Supreme Court stepping in could not put their man in office. So now they cry.
Do they seek the America of December 6th, 1944? An America recovering from depression, willfully ignorant of the world? An America that saw the problems of the rest of the world as none of their business. An America that could have done so much more to help the free peoples of the world but hid from the world. An America that paid with blood over the next half decade to put right what was wrong. I think not.
Do they seek the America of “Give us Your Poor, Your Weak, Your Huddled Masses, Yearning to be Free”? Oh, hell no! They do not want that! Their weak, poor family came here long enough ago to make their citizenship assured, why should they share it? These groups who are paranoid about a national police force or ‘one world’ government ask no less than we all carry more identification than is required by law. Where are we going to send all the tea baggers when they do not have their birth certificate or passport on them? What nation would take them? Oh, but wait, tea baggers will be wearing the correct shoes. That will keep them from being subjected to this violation of our civil liberties!
Maybe they seek solace in the second amendment. They group themselves with the militias and gun nuts. I have been hearing all the propaganda from the NRA since childhood about how the government was coming for gun owners. In forty years I have yet to see it happen except when the gun nuts go… well, nuts! The parts of the Constitution that these wing nuts always forget to mention is how these militias will be “well regulated” and how they will be placed under the command of the President of The United States Of America during national crises. The moment you ignore part of the Constitution you are no longer a militia group, you are a domestic terrorist group. If you do not recognize the President’s authority over you then you violate the principle you stand for and show you are not an American living by our laws but a terrorist seeking to overthrow the United States Government.
Seriously, if any tea baggers read this, please let me know when or where your lost America was, what you liked about it and why you want it back.
The reason I ask this is because I am confused by your movement and your rallies. I see Revolutionary war clothing and banners alongside Civil War clothing and banners. You call for education cuts when you obviously cannot spell a simple protest sign. Your support for the common man is offset by who pays for your tour buses and rallies. Your leaders are morally bankrupt while claiming to be just. You cling to disproved beliefs like they are talisman protecting you from some sort of boogieman and regardless of what you claim you are a vastly older white movement.
If you are so honest, why do you lie so much?
If you are so independent, why be sponsored by the big corporations you decry?
If you are so American, why call for violence against our government?
If you are so inclusive, why insult minorities?
If you are supposedly so patriotic then how can you act so Un American?
If you are so Christian, how can you deny health care to a fellow human being?

The Waaaambulance picks up an old white tea bagger from a rally.

What is it you really want? If you don't like our government, get off our sidewalks and streets.