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Killgore Trout10/29/2009 6:28:19 pm PDT

Tea Party Movement Returns, This Time with Much More Dangerous and Explicit Rhetoric

By Frank Schaeffer

According to the “Tea Party” website, Tea Party Express II: Countdown To Judgment Day” is underway.

If you buy the biblical spin of the Religious Right folks — that make up the bulk of the Tea Party movement — the implication is clear: Jesus will soon return, send all Democrats, gays, blacks, progressives, liberals, college-educated unbelievers, etc., to Hell, while saving what Sarah Palin calls “us” “Real Americans” — in other words unreconstructed frightened and resentful white lower middle class Americans.

(As a former right wing evangelical anti-abortion leader who built a good career from these folks — until I quit in disgust with myself, the anti-American nature of the movement and the takeover the Republican Party by extremists — I know of what I speak.)

If you put the secular/right’s “tree-of-Liberty-must-be-watered-by-the-blood-of-tyrants-Timothy McVeigh spin on the Judgment Day scenario; then there will soon be a hoped for bloody day of reckoning for the occupant of the White House.
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When the Tea Party folks say they want to “take back our country” who do they want to take it back from?