i found common ground with a teabagger yesterday

[mimitabby]

It was on facebook, and the way I started the thread was simply "I'm watching Wisconsin"
A lot of people posted and most of my friends are liberal and some of my family is not.
So this teabagger family member was egging on my friends and he said something about union members and swollen
salaries. So I responded in kind, that it wasn't my big swollen salary that was bankrupting companies
it was the executives who were making EIGHTY times more than me and even when they screwed up, they got immense bonuses.

So my teabagger relative says to me "I agree whole heartedly with that, ALL executives are not held accountable, from banks to private companies, even Home Depot paid out millions to that idiot Bob Nardeli raked in 123 Mil leaving on bad terms. No one holds these people accountable. We should ALL be protesting that!!
I almost cried when I read that.
How rare is that?

These bastards will unite us... Even if we lose rights in Wisconsin, what we are winning is solidarity.

[rurallib]

1. If a tea bagger were truly concerned about budgets and fair play

they would not be a bagger for long.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. +1

:thumbsup:

[DeSwiss]

3. K&R

Folks seldom talk politics or current events except during the final weeks before an election and when prompted by lefty agitators like me, or grassroots neocon Republican operatives -- people who understand that the four cornerstones of the American political psyche are (1) emotion substituted for thought, (2) fear, (3) ignorance, (4) propaganda. Why had the working class so plainly voted against their own interest? And will they do so again?

I am standing in the checkout line at the Food Lion. The lady in front is telling the clerk how her church rallied to buy her and Eddie a secondhand truck after theirs was repossessed: "It only needs a front tire and new brakes." "Praises be to Him!" exclaims the clerk, as if God had come down to personally deliver the 1990 Toyota himself. Obviously they are all born-again. The wife grabs up her purchases, a sixer of Diet Pepsi, a carton of Little Debbie Cakes, and moves on to the door."

Behind me are four or five other customers who could be their doubles, overweight, cheap clothing, looking as though they'd been shot at and missed, and shit at and hit, each of them with his or her own assortment of money, health and legal problems. The fact is, liberals and working people need each other to survive the growing economic calamity delivered to us by the regime that promised to "run this country like a business." The left must come face-to-face with Americans who do not necessarily share all of their priorities especially with Americans who have not been voting.

So I sit here watching fat Pootie in a T-shirt that reads: ONE MILLION BATTERED WOMEN IN THIS COUNTRY AND I'VE BEEN EATING MINE PLAIN! That this is not considered especially offensive says all you need to know about cultural and gender sensitivity around here. And the fact that Pootie votes, owns guns and is allowed to purchase hard liquor is something we should all probably be afraid to contemplate. The Nazis gave the German people the Jews to hate. The Republicans have given the American people the gays and Muslims to hate.

http://www.joebageant.com/">~Joe Bageant, excerpts from: 'Deer Hunting With Jesus'

[lunasun]

5. The"" Republicans have given the American people the gays and Muslims to hate.""

...and now public servants that are union to hate also
( and forgotten was mexicans and kenyan born prez ...they will get back to the jews sooner or later too)

[RegieRocker]

4. This relative of yours had a momentary regaining of sanity

and it will soon slip away.

[mimitabby]

6. I don't agree

that's not necessarily true. I think people will start waking up as things get more painful

[RegieRocker]

7. I hope that is the case, I really do.