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These accusations were designed to incite strong feelings, even hatred, among the conservative base. Open calls for secession in Texas and repeated calls for “revolution” (even though we just had a well-attended, well-executed election cycle) from policies that hadn’t even had time to take effect yet across the board were noteworthy. Plenty of teabaggers were proudly discussing their second amendment-protected personal armories and their willingness to use them, should real revolution come. Against whom, they couldn’t really say.

And there’s that black guy in the White House, and that’s just so foreign to their sensibilities that it all has to be a plot, a conspiracy, a secret plan by unseen forces working through “that negro” (one actually said that to me) to enslave the good hard-working American white folk and take away their freedoms to go to church and own guns and get married and not pay taxes – despite any real evidence to back that claim up. Indeed, some cite the very lack of evidence as proof of the conspiracy.

The idea of a Tea Party was probably that of CNBC commentator Rick Santelli, who ranted against any government assistance for persons who lost their homes through foreclosure. Pushing the tea bagging of America were Fox mouths Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, and dozens of other conservative talking mouths who are among the top 5 percent, and whose seven-figure incomes would be reduced under the Obama plan to restore fiscal sanity to America.