The Tea Party should change their name to the Mob Mentality Party

[lunatica]

Not Mob as in mafia, but mob as in getting caught up in the frothing anger of a group of people who can get themselves worked up to do things they would never consider doing as individuals. That's what we're witnessing now. The people in the so called Tea Party (a name that sounds delicate and so civilized) are not a new phenomena. They've been around throughout history. They are haters and they're insecure and must blame someone other than themselves. The kind of people who can easily be manipulated by just feeding their anger and hatred and creating an enemy they can focus that anger on.

Just create a scapegoat and you have them in the palm of your hand. Hitler did it by blaming the Jews for Germany's woes after WWI. The mob rule has been used by unsrcupulous people since the dawn of history. We've seen it a hundred times in our Western movies with they're hangings and we've seen it in photos of lynchings. We saw it and heard about it in Rwanda and we see the results in Somalia.

The Tea Party have been getting worked up beyond their normal state of hatred and anger since Sarah Palin was picked by McCain as his VP choice. She was like opening another Pandora's box which started the wild stirrings of the mob mentality with her speeches. It was quickly evident to the GOP that they had some seething anger they could tap into and manipulate. It never occurred to the likes of Billy Kristol and Dick Armey that they were dealing with a mob. They thought they could control this new angry energy. Well no one can. When they unleashed them on the Town Hall Meetings they started whipping each other into the mob we see now. And it isn't over yet. They're beginning now to consider the unthinkable. They're listening to those who advocate violence. That is the definition of mob rule. When a person pushes beyond the legal, beyond the accepted activity, beyond the lines of reason the mob will do things no normal person would do. And trying to talk reason to them won't work. Not even for those who have championed their activity because they fear the mob will turn on them if they don't have that strawman scapegoat. It's getting truly ugly and I don't see it ending anytime soon. As a matter of fact I see it escalating in the future. They've created the monster and now they must deal with the consequences.

[lunatica]

1. One more chance then it can sink

[muntrv]

2. Actually, I started calling them the tea klux klan.

[lunatica]

3. That's very apt also. They have the mob mentality too

They do their thing in groups and hiding behind masks.