Faux News Leads a Faux Revolution

Ok so for anyone who pays attention to the cable news cycles knows, Fox News is organizing Tea Parties all around the country to drum up support for their anti taxation movement. This might be the most ironic thing I have ever seen come out of the right wing of this country. I am going to address this irony in two parts.

First things first, the American Republican party is the party of the corporation and privatization. If you don’t believe this or feel this is a misnomer, you are an idiot and need to walk around with a bag on your head so the rest of society can mock you for being the moron you are. So with that said lets talk a little about the original Boston Tea Party. Being from Boston and being a history buff I know a little bit about the subject. Let’s take a trip back down memory lane and take a look at that moment in American history that the right wing has decided to co-op for their own benefit. The Boston Tea Party was an act of rebellion, not against the crown, but against the British East India Company which controlled the crown similar to the way major multinationals have seized control over our current government. The mantra of taxation without representation is clever but really doesn’t tell the whole story. The driving motives for the Boston Tea Party was not just the slightly raised taxes decreed by the crown, it was the complete removal of taxation for the colonies main competitor in the form of the British East India Company. If you sell tea and are forced to pay 10% tax on your profits, you might be ok with that, but not if your competitor is allowed to pay 0%, which is exactly what happened. Secondly, the Boston Tea Party was what would be considered today an act of terrorism since adjusted for inflation the colonists destroyed 1.5 million dollars worth of tea. So the idea that the republican party, the party of the multinational corporation, would hold symbolic tea parties to protest taxation against the rich is simply hilarious, and makes me wish people would study history and not update their twitter about that awesome sandwich you just had that no one should care about.

The second point of irony is that the republican are trying to position themselves as the populist party now since their base is becoming disenfranchised. Let me get this straight. The all white, southern conservative, xenophobic, bigoted, born again Christians are now the populists? Hold on I have to change my pants since I just shit them laughing at this notion. I don’t even know what to say about this except, NO. You are not the populists. You represent the wealthy and their interests and you do it from accumulate power granted to you by religious intolerance, bigotry and a poor white underclass that has voted against its own best interests for 60 years. You want to represent the people, you can start by making amends for the damage you have done since Reagan by eating a nice heaping helping of GO FUCK YOURSELF, and letting real conservatives like Ron Paul lead your party. I don’t even agree with Ron Paul, but at least he is an honest politician who cares about his country more than his corporations.