From the season finale of “The Newsroom” (August 26, 2012)
Ideological purity
Belief in scriptural literalism
Deny science
Unmoved by facts
Undeterred by new information
Hostile fear of progress
Demonization of Education
Need to control women’s bodies
Severe Xenophobia
Tribal Mentality
Intolerance of decent
Pathological hatred of the United States Government
These things define those who call themselves the Tea Party,
and they may call themselves Conservatives.
They can even call themselves Republicans (though Republicans certainly
shouldn’t).
But we should call them what they are: The American Taliban
Which cannot survive if YOU (insert character’s name) are
allowed to vote.
Disclaimer: This is
not the exact wording of the main character but comes as close as I can get
listening to the program several times.
This list, however, is correct as spoken by the character and cannot be
any clearer as to the nature of those who call themselves the Tea Party. And I do believe their correct name should be
the American Taliban. Their fear based
platform has disrupted our politics and done nothing to improve the working of
our government. They like to think of
themselves as Patriots but patriots to what cause is yet to be specified. I do not like what I am seeing or hearing
from their representatives. We have a
choice this fall and we should use our choice to remove them from any and all
offices: local, state or national before they can do any more harm to what we
have called democracy. The most
disturbing effect that we have been experiencing in almost every state is their
determination to prevent people from voting by changing laws that make it easy
for people to vote, by requiring identification that many people cannot afford
to get or by physically removing people from the voting rolls without any
reason other than their gender or race.
We must not only vote this fall, we must make sure that anyone who needs
help to get to the polls, gets the help they need. Are you with me?
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