Most teabaggers I've seen are supporting an independent Scotland

[Hugabear]

I wonder if they realize that Scotland is generally more liberal than the rest of the UK?

[strawberries]

1. you are assuming

they can read

[FSogol]

2. Freedumb!

I support Scotland too.

[Hugabear]

3. As do I

Just an interesting observation. I would have thought that most teabaggers would be against Scotland going free.

[former9thward]

6. Why?

A liberal Scotland (or a conservative one) will have no great influence on anything happening in the world. What is left of the UK -- a nation that does have some influence in the world -- will become more conservative. That said, I favor self-determination for all who want it, and this vote allows the Scots to do what the majority wants.

[Hugabear]

9. Why shouldn't I

Just because Scotland may not have much influence on the rest of the world, that's not a reason to oppose their quest for independence.

[former9thward]

13. I think we went past each other in our posts

but that aside I agree that's not a reason to oppose their independence if that is what they want.

[mmonk]

4. LOL!

The thought they think.

[MohRokTah]

5. They'll point to Scotland and ask why states in the US can't do the same.

At least, that's how they'll feel as long as a black man is president.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

7. Is it?

Scotland is certainly more economically left-wing than the rest of the UK; I'm not sure it's more liberal.

[CJCRANE]

8. Maybe they just like the flag.nt

[JaneyVee]

10. They support an independent Texas too.

[woo me with science]

11. Because they are fucked over by corporatism, by neoliberalism and neoconservatism, too.

The relevant battle here is not Red versus Blue or conservatives versus liberals. The real war is between the One Percent and the rest of us.

The primary problem is a corporate elite, a small less than One Percent, that is systematically taking over governments, driving out democracy and installing authoritarian corporatism, and propagandizing these absurd fights among ourselves so that we will never unite against what they are doing to ALL of us.

We are not a country of half Democratic human beings and half Republican monsters. We are all part of a majority being ridiculously oppressed and disenfranchised by a tiny minority building corporate empire using governments on both sides of the Atlantic.

[DemocraticWing]

14. Thank you!

I've believed for quite some time that progressives in this country spend too much time raving about the truly awful beliefs of many supporters of the tea party, and not enough time on figuring out why their motivations and rhetoric are often not much different than our own. If we can convince just some of them that their goals of overthrowing the elites is better served through policies on the Left than by going even further right, maybe we the people can actually unite and take this country back from the 1% and corporate elites.

[Laelth]

12. It feeds their secessionist fantasies. n/t

-Laelth

[Marr]

15. They liked Braveheart. That's really where the thinking ends.

Teabaggers tend to know jack shit about anything outside the US.