Heh. I read this following a link from another blog and was struck by much the same things you were.
I like the style of the article. The hyperbole and WTF and picking on teabaggers for being stupid was amusing enough to keep me reading while a thoroughly dry rendering of the same facts and opinions would have been very tough chewing for me.
The tea party appears to consist of people with disparate views who do not realise that the other members do not hold corresponding views. I look at the disjointed drivel that the tea party leaders rouse the rallies with and it looks, to me, to be deliberately crafted to say nothing. The manipulators of the movement benefit from having iconic leaders who are blank and empty so that the multiplicity of people who "follow" them can project their beliefs on to them.
Asking "what does the Tea Party stand for" would get as many different answers as there are people in it, I'd warrant. Asking "what is Sarah Palin's stance on X" would get widely divergent answers, too.
I've been looking for a word to describe an ill-defined neologism lately. Substantially because it would inform me regarding what to call a diverse morass of people who each ascribe different meanings goal to a term/movement/person. What is the collective for ignoramus... es? (Ignorami?) after all?
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I like the style of the article. The hyperbole and WTF and picking on teabaggers for being stupid was amusing enough to keep me reading while a thoroughly dry rendering of the same facts and opinions would have been very tough chewing for me.
The tea party appears to consist of people with disparate views who do not realise that the other members do not hold corresponding views. I look at the disjointed drivel that the tea party leaders rouse the rallies with and it looks, to me, to be deliberately crafted to say nothing. The manipulators of the movement benefit from having iconic leaders who are blank and empty so that the multiplicity of people who "follow" them can project their beliefs on to them.
Asking "what does the Tea Party stand for" would get as many different answers as there are people in it, I'd warrant. Asking "what is Sarah Palin's stance on X" would get widely divergent answers, too.
I've been looking for a word to describe an ill-defined neologism lately. Substantially because it would inform me regarding what to call a diverse morass of people who each ascribe different meanings goal to a term/movement/person. What is the collective for ignoramus... es? (Ignorami?) after all?