[lbo-talk] Chomsky on Tea Partiers

[CGreen7223 at aol.com]

Chomsky keeps implying that the Tea Partiers are a bunch of working class  
folks victimized by neoliberalism. I wonder if he has seen the numerous 
studies  showing that the Tea Partiers are, to a large extent, privileged middle 
class  and upper middle class workers and petit bourgeois who really don't 
have much in  the way of "real grievances" but are a bunch of racist, 
ignorant spoiled people  made even more ignorant and racist by talk radio 
demagogues. I can't imagine  that somebody hasn't called his attention to these 
studies about the Tea Party. 

 
And Joe Stack is not typical of the Tea Partiers. Most Tea Party people  
seem to think big business is just fine. They all probably think, because Rush 

 Limbaugh says so, that the financial crises was caused by the government 
forcing  the banks to give mortgages to black and brown people who couldn't  
afford to pay them back and which required the poor banks to create toxic  
financial instruments to try to make the mortgages profitable, and so on. 

 

 
In a message dated 5/14/2010 10:58:39 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
cb31450 at gmail.com writes:

CHOMSKY:  HOW THE TEA PARTIERS ARE GETTING SCREWED BY THEIR OWN IDEOLOGY
By Noam  Chomsky, In These Times
'We should not underestimate the depth of moral  indignation
that lies behind the furious, often  self-destructive
bitterness about government and business  power."
http://www.alternet.org/story/146852/chomsky%3A_how_the_tea_partiers_are_get
ting_screwed_by_their_own_ideology
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