THE TEAPARTIERS

The Teapartiers are treating our democracy as though they were Puritans responding to King George III.  We have no clear mental health profile of the Puritans who came over on the Mayflower but I have difficulty believing they were as weird as our current crop of government protesters.  President Obama was on for the full half hour and the taped program was shortened a bit as it had run over the allotted time..

In fact, the situation is rather frightening.  We are dealing with people who believe they have to 'take back' the government, by force, if necessary.  I would hate to see a real revolution where there will be bloodshed but ti seems headed in that direction.  There is no question in my mind but that governmental agencies have been tracking the militias and their leaders.  The difficulty is that nothing can be done about them until they have committed some illegal act that is overt or has been witnessed by reliable observers.

As painful as it is to have to accept one's friends and relatives for their ridiculous views on politicians, it will be worse if we have to deal with them on opposite sides of a revolution.  We can only hope that it doesn't come to that.

Today Jon Stewart was honored as the most influential American male, though I have not been able to find the proper confirmation of it. Better still, today, was a special segment by Keith Olbermann during which he gave a pretty complete run-down on the insanity Teapartiers are perpetrating on the rest of us.  It was clear that the majority of those running for serious office are incompetent to fill the position as representatives of their constituency.  There should not be a voter who skips reading this if they hadn't heard it live when he gave it.