Dialectic in the Tea Bag 0
Michael Tomasky remembers a dinner table conversation from before teabaggers were teabaggers. It helps him parse some of the internal contradictions in the intellectual structure of teabaggery. A nugget:
The second problem is the one I saw manifest at that dinner that night. Everybody in this country isn’t like you. Yes, you worked hard to get where you are. But the vast majority of people work hard. Some have good luck, some have bad. Some stay healthy, some get sick. Some make only wise decisions, some make an unwise one. Some benefit from free-market oddities and inequities, some lose. And yes, some, because of history or birth circumstances, started the race at a starting line several paces back from the one where you started. Part of citizenship, a crucial part of citizenship, is standing in their shoes for a few moments – as they must stand in yours, and understand your point of view too.
