Not that he isn't brilliant as he is already, but, he had a moment of particularly genius-ness.
"The Tea-Party is founded on fear." - Mike Stralka
During our small group discussion in class on Friday, we talked about dense facts and the Tea Party. We were looking at the article "Climate Change Doubt is Tea Party Article of Faith". As you can guess by the article title, one of the key beliefs of the Tea Party is that the argument of anthropogenic climate change is a lie, and that what is happening to the earth is the work of God.
Personally, I think this is just silly.
The Tea-Party sees only what they wish to see. They are conformist - afraid of differences. They take a strong stand against immigrants, homosexuals, and anyone that doesn't belong to their faith. Differences are the unknown - and are a bit scary.
As Dumbledore said, "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." I'm not saying differences mean death or darkness, but that the unknown is what we really fear above all.
They do not respect the differences of the human race. They are afraid of fear.
I'd like to end with the famous quote from FDR's inaugural address: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
I think this quote sums up my ideas about the Tea Party. They are pretty scary.
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