Wednesday - September 08, 2010

folks who just do not understand the tea party …

If you follow the link to her editorial and scroll down, there are tons of comments from both Brits and Americans.  And there is let us be honest please, quite a bit of race involved among many people who just can not abide a president of color. A Negro. 
As Drew once pointed out some time ago.  And I agree btw, it shouldn’t matter and it doesn’t to many, if a person is a Martian and green. What he says and what he does count. And for me personally, no matter what color, if he or she is one the left I am automatically against them.  I don’t like the left, I can hardly tolerate liberals and in fact, I can’t tolerate them.  But I do honestly think that our critics have some basis in truth for once.  There are an awful lot of plain old fashioned racists who have found a legitimate cover to hide behind in the TP.  I think it’s wrong to try and hide that.  On the other hand, there’s lots of folks who don’t hate anyone but just naturally prefer to hang out with other folks just like themselves.  And they are tagged as racists, unfairly I think. 

With regard to the BBC and radio which is often what I listen to, it isn’t so much that their on air ppl say or pontificate about the TP.  No. But what I often hear are interviews with Americans who are mostly on the left side of things.  Not so much screaming Marxist activists.  But rather soft spoken and well speaking Americans who, when they are not hinting at race and the TP, still manage to paint a pretty racist picture of the USA.  Some smart asses on the left who are on panel shows almost always find a way to say something not altogether kind about my country and of course, they are still blaming Bush for the state of the world. And still mentioning how inarticulate he appeared. One even suggested he’d never read a book.

And that’s how things are.

Janet Daley was born in America where she began her political life on the Left as an undergraduate at Berkeley. She moved to Britain (and to the Right) in 1965 where she spent nearly twenty years in academic life before becoming a political commentator: all factors that inform her writing on British and American policy and politicians.

The BBC completely fails to understand the Tea Party movement

By Janet Daley

With the smug incomprehension in which it takes so much pride (can’t understand – won’t understand!), the BBC sets about the American Tea Party Movement as if it were a cross between the Klu Klux Klan and the German neo-fascist brigade. Not once in all the demonic depictions I have seen and heard (last week’s Newsnight package was particularly outrageous) have I heard a mention of what the TPM is actually about: taxation. (Note to BBC editors: the movement is named after the Boston Tea Party because it is protesting about the imposition of higher federal taxes and over-weening controls on citizens who believe their voices have been ignored.)

The British generally and the BBC in particular have a real problem understanding the obsessive suspicion in which the power of central government is held in the US. This is not some funny redneck eccentricity: it is fundamental to the Constitution which gives individual states much greater sovereignty than the countries of the European Union enjoy.

The states have independent judicial systems (some states have capital punishment, others do not) and separate taxation systems (some have sales taxes, others do not). Only a Supreme Court ruling can over-turn state law by, for example, declaring something (such as abortion) to be a legal right which a state legislature may not deny.

Traditionally there is only one nationally imposed tax - federal income tax – which is designed to pay for those functions that must be carried out by national government. Resistance to the Obama healthcare reforms is as passionate as it is precisely because it imposes a federal requirement to purchase health insurance which seems to contravene the basic economic freedom guaranteed by the Constitution.

The BBC obviously finds it impossible to believe that ordinary people could actually take issues like this seriously. (They can only be racists or hillibilly know-nothings.) The Corporation really ought to encourage its correspondents to get out more and talk to some of the articulate Americans who don’t spend their lives in liberal salons.

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