The tea party planned a huge 30 million person rally yesterday, in which they would demand that the President and all of Congress resign so they could install whatever. You can see how it was all over the news today. Um, well, maybe not. They ended up with about 300. Just 29,999,700 short!
Here’s a video of their planning session:
Those who were there were as active as ever, with their “Impeach Obama” signs and others that just said “Benghazi” as if that explained everything.
They were predominately white and elderly (the Fox News demographic, where the average age of viewers is 68) who hate socialism and socialized medicine. They were in good shape thanks to medicare and could afford to travel to Washington thanks to Social Security.
Of course, these people have the right to protest — but this particular protest was ridiculous. They demand that everyone in American government must resign so that new people will be appointed who will “obey the Constitution” — according to who? Who gets to decide who gets appointed? Who determines whether someone is obeying the Constitution? (This is a common argument among those who really don’t think it through.)
These are people who lost the election and cannot accept that. They can’t see that other people might have different views (and, I might point out, the majority of Americans disagree with them on just about every single issue.) In their world view, everyone who has a different opinion is evil, wrong, and undermining the Constitution.
I will admit that they at least are not advocating the violent overthrow of the government. But the basics are the same. One of the main speakers there yesterday spoke in support of that Bundy rancher who does not accept the legitimacy of the US government.
And the crowd cheered. Such patriots!
(That was sarcasm.)
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“Who determines whether someone is obeying the Constitution?” – Well, the Constitution itself is pretty clear on that. I’ve heard arguments that the Supreme Court isn’t given the right to rule on the Constitution itself, but those are always purely based on misunderstanding of word choices.
In other words, if you truly are a “back to what the Constitution says” believer, then you have to cheer on Obamacare as Constitutional, because the agency that the Constitution says can rule on the matter did so, and that was their decision. If, however, you choose not to, then you are faced with quite a paradox should you opt to utilize enough critical thinking ability to see it.
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