Events, history sadly confuse Nevada teabaggers

For most if not all their adult lives, theirs has been the blissful igorance of those who think that Rush Limbaugh has all the answers and that Democratic politicians were not only in the minority, but far too frightened and spineless to pursue a genuine agenda of social and economic progress. On the latter point, teabaggers, both nationally and here in Nevada, have been mostly right.

So for, oh, 30 years, the ill-informed rabble, easily duped by corporate masters, media manipulators, religious entrepreneurs and other assorted robber barons and charlatans, reveled in the tragic delusion that "their" side was winning.

Meantime, their average wages, adjusted for inflation, were stagnating or worse over that entire period and in fact are lower now than in 1979. Over that same three decades, the CEOs of the corporations who exploited sincere if misguided and shallow populist sentiments vis-a-vis guns, god, guts, gays, etc. saw their own incomes skyrocket from a mere 30 times the average worker's salary to 344 times as high. And of course all the while the tax code was being skewed, first by Reagan, and most recently by the worst president in history, so that the rich paid less in taxes while they, the eager and loyal teabaggers, paid more. (Borosage et al)

Now even though they're paying less in taxes thanks to Barack Obama, the president's agenda designed to ameliorate the polarization of wealth, restore some fairness to the economic playing field and invest in horribly neglected problems such as health care reform and energy restructuring -- that is,  a mainstream progressive agenda -- represents a jarring affront to the overly simple but magnificently wrong worldview that the teabaggers have held with so much certainty for so long. Surely, this can't be happening. They. Are. Freaking. Out.

So tempting though it is to make jokes about their failure to understand the hypocrisy of their own positions or their cluelessness even of their own best interest (to say nothing of their apparent ignorance of slang used to describe sexual procedures), the hapless, confused, angry, bitter, sad, pathetic and ultimately irrelevant teabaggers, cheered on here in Nevada by the likes of Dean Heller and Sharron Angle and enabled by right-wing radio station KXNT, do not deserve only our mockery and our scorn. We should also reserve a measure of pity.

Or just fuck 'em. Whichever.

Comments

[kickboxermomma]

I prefer F***em.

[VegasTeaRoom]

Pity Fuck 'em.

[Dude]

Who was that handsome man on KLAS's 11 p.m. bit on the pathetic tax contributions by the mining industry, now swimming in cash?

[dave404]

Dean Heller statement on teabagging;
"Nevadans are tightening their belts and cutting their household budgets in these tough economic times while the federal government continues to grow, borrows trillions of dollars, and increases taxes on every working American...."

In the latest spending bill Heller sponsored or co-sponsored 26 earmarks worth $53,159,250 which included money for Fernley, Elko,Carson City and Wells; the communities of the teabaggers.

Heller has caused the United States government to borrow an additional $53m which will require higher taxes to pay off the credit card...and yet, the idiots stand there in front of him and don't understand that they are the joke. Or, as Gleaner writes, they are "the hapless, confused, angry, bitter, sad, pathetic and ultimately irrelevant teabaggers".

[Nancy]

Fuck 'em and feed 'em a fish head

[Some Guy From Nye]

I'll go with Nancy on this one. I like the fish head thing.