I'll apologize right up front for the short diary but there are headlines that sometimes emerge in the news that get right to the heart of the matter.
In this case it is what really is driving the Teabaggers and I use that term because "Tea Party" implies an underlying philosophy and ideology, which is something that no one has really been able to really articulate or discern in a coherent fashion.
What you have is a rabble clutching guns, screaming racist and anti-government rhetoric, brandishing posters of Hitler and Stalin, spouting nonsense about communism and fascism... terms that they scarcely understand.
What you have underneath that though is a bunch of frightened people who are losing their jobs, their homes, and scared spitless over a world and a future they can scarcely understand. It terrifies them.
Despite all the anti-government rants... what most of them want is a job!
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