Friends of Free-
I will have footage for you soon of my fieldwork of the Tea Party gathering that took place on the Boston Common today. I’m waking up from a nap right now because I was practically lulled to sleep at the event. The only major occurrence of the day was that I was finally able to kiss a man on film as an expression of my support for gay rights. So, you can cross that off the list.
I think the only real story of the day was that there was no story at all. The Tea Party supporters that I encountered seemed generally confused as to what they were even supporting. It clearly goes right along with all that I have been saying on this blog for the past few months. They came with no defined agenda and no answers on how we should solve the political issues that plague this country. The general opinion among the crowd was that our taxes are too high. And that’s about fucking it.
When Sarah Palin took stage, the PA system barely carried her voice to the back of the crowd. I believe that they were expecting about 10,000 people today, but it appeared like only about 2,000 folks showed up. Even Palin was unable to get a real reaction out of the crowd. Sure, there were some hoots and hollers. But, take it from this leftist revolutionary— the Tea Party is no political movement. It is nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
The Tea Party is not a political movement because it rests in the hands of aging white Americans who appear to be more disillusioned with their own thoughts than they are with the realities of the government. They are wrestling with these abstract concepts that they’re unable to bring down to the earth and, so, they float up into the air with only each other to grab onto.
Now, I’m not much of a man for church, Friends of Free. But the gathering today was more like what I would expect out of a church service than an organized political movement— filled with geeks and old people.
I know that the Tea Party will keep coming up in 2010 and into 2012. But, as far as I’m concerned, this is case closed. They are a wandering band of white Americans with very few ideas and no political vision. I am so fucking over their mindless bullshit at this point that I might even stop blogging about them. But what would be the fun in that? Isn’t bashing the weak how the aging white suburban Americans came to power in the first place?
The Real Revolution exists Here,
- Freemont Barrington
