Friday, April 25, 2014

Bundy and the real tea party

Now that anyone with a shred of dignity or dreams of a national constituency has distanced themselves from deadbeat racist rancher Cliven Bundy it is worth considering who is left to support him and where the country as a whole is going from here.  After spouting the white supremacist line about "the negro", it is apparent Bundy buys into the posse commitatus movement.  This southern inspired nonsense was spawned after the civil war to get the government to move its troops out of the occupied south.  It is the legislation which prohibits the US armed forces from operating inside the country.  Supposedly the county sheriff in each county is the highest authority in that county.  Of course non of this BS would stand up in a court of law.  That is one reason everyone from Hannity to Ted Cruz quickly lost Bundy's number.   Unfortunately, the dog whistles he has been blowing will continue to attract the pond scum of America and there will probably be blood on the ground at some point.  The leaders of the Republican party and its various mouthpieces should do a little research into the zeitgeist of the movement they seem so eager to use.  Going all the way back to the Whiskey Rebellion there has been an anti government, anti tax movement which attracts the losers in society.  This is a volatile mix which could go off in their faces as it did yesterday.  Next time it could be much worse.

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