Most articles and amendments to The Constitution of The United States were written for the benefit of its citizens and, more specifically, to ensure that none of its citizens were excluded from participating in American governance. Granted, the founders lived in a time when some human beings weren't even considered as such. In the beginning, voting was the exclusive right of white males who owned property. The fact that John Adams, the second president of The United States, served only one term, was one piece of evidence that even white male land owners didn't believe in an exclusionary version of representative democracy. Adams, if given the latitude, may have introduced a monarchy into the United States. At any rate, he would have done nothing to open up participation to all citizens of The United States.
We didn't see many posters bearing quotes and/or images of John Adams during the protests of the '60s and early '70s. Those protests supported a more open, more transparent and less violent society.
Teabaggers' protests, although they may at times look like the protests of 30-40 years ago, have almost nothing in common with those past protests. Teabaggerss' protests are subsidized by the very kinds of people that the protests of the 60s and 70s targeted. Teabaggers want to allow states to close their societies if that's what states want to do. Teabaggers want to protect the rights of the very wealthy, although many on the level of those who do the protesting don't believe that truth. Teabaggers don't want the wealthy so called "job creators" taxed or regulated because the "job creators" will not create jobs. Teabaggers have not looked at recent history and seen that the tax cuts that the "job creators" were given by The Regime, otherwise known as the Bush Administration, did many things, but they did not help create jobs. In fact, job loss was prolific during those eight years.
Nonetheless, teabaggers have hijacked the spirit of the protests which took place in the 60s and early 70s while rallying against the substance of the earlier protests. They've insulted what were real grass roots protests which favored the rights of all people of all colors and all ethnicities. The wealthy greedheads who started this present teabagger movement have appealed to the darker side of human nature and we should cut them absolutely no slack. Those who participate in the rallies and protests should also be cut no slack as they are, apparently, either racist enough to agree with their masters or too unaware of what's going on to be taken seriously.
Power to the people!
To friendship,
Michael
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." - Woodrow Wilson
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