Tea Party Derangement Syndrome: The Real T.P.D.S.

[Phatscotty]

People fear what they do not understand. Some understand less than others.

I’ve noticed lately, in talking to liberals, that their frontal lobes have been taken over by the Tea Party. Sadly, when I say this I don’t mean that they’ve embraced the Tea Party’s commitment to smaller government and greater individual freedom. I mean instead that the idea of the Tea Party sits in their brains, stimulating them to bizarre flights of rhetorical fancy. Two examples:

First example: I was talking with someone about vaccinations (in which I strongly believe). I mentioned that in my neck of the woods, despite the high level of education, many people are hostile to vaccinations, preferring “holistic” remedies, none of which have a strong track record when it comes to measles, polio, small pox, etc. The person to whom I was speaking instantly said, “Well, educated people often have completely irrational beliefs. Look at Nazis or the Tea Partiers.” A more accurate observation might have been that the people near me, most of them Ivy Leaguers, didn’t get a lot of bang for their bucks when it come to learning logical, scientific thinking at their expensive Ivory Towers.

Second example: I overheard someone talking to a colleague about someone with whom they both worked: “Ignore him. He’s a complete fruitcake. When it comes to this project, he’s like one of those insane Tea Partiers.”

Tea Party Derangement Syndrome (TPDS)

the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the growing number of people attending Tea Parties
"Oh, he doesn't need facts, he's one of those left leaning bloggers suffering from Tea Party Derangement Syndrome."(TPDS). http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... id=4968880

[BigBallinStalin]

Voted that first one down for it is obviously false.


The second is definitely correct:

The acute onset of paranoia in Tea Party followers that cause them to mistrust their fellow Americans when they appear not to endorse their Far-Right ideals. This causes them to take a dualistic approach to those who disagree with them. Often leading them to never give the opposing side's opinions a chance in their minds

[pimpdave]

Yeah, that definition was obviously posted by a Tea Party Disinformation Squad.

[Phatscotty]

http://www.gaypatriot.net/2010/10/24/is ... -the-left/

No, it’s not a new fad. They simply transfer the object of their animus from one target to the next. There was “Reagan The Enemy Of All Things Good And Virtuous” and then it was “George H W Bush The Enemy Blah Blah Blah” to GW to Rove to Cheney to McCain to Palin to the Tea Party to….

The left is in a constant state of derangement. The only thing that changes is who gets designated Emmanuel Goldstein. They’re gunning for Mara Liasson.

Also, the left can’t bring themselves to honestly come out and say “We hate the Tea Parties because they oppose Big Government, Big Spending, and High Taxes” because Democrats have to pretend to oppose those things as well. So, they have to come up with these phony charges of violence and racism instead.

Agreed, however, I believe the Allinsky tactics the Left has been using to great success for decades is now failing them because they have tried to “isolate” too many different enemies to blame for their own failures. In the 80s, the Left beamed all of their hatred and outrage onto Reagan alone. And one of the reasons the man is a LEGEND is because he effortlessly deflected all of that leftist rage with class and humor, making the public love him all the more.

Fast-forward to 2010, and even the liberals woke up to the fact that they couldn’t blame ONLY George W. Bush forever. But instead of picking one target and coordinating all of their venomous attacks in one direction, they have launched almost a dozen different smear campaigns against:

Rush Limbaugh (the “titular” head of the GOP);

DC lobbyists for “special interests” (whom Americans know are just as cozy with the Democrats as Republicans, if not more so);

Foxnews (“not a news organization” = EPIC FAIL);

Wall Street/The Banks (which the Democrats couldn’t wait to bail out to the tune of billions);

The Tea Parties (“violent racists!”, minus the violence and racism, of course);

Sarah Palin (no really! that mother of five that CHOSE to have a baby with Down’s Syndrome is actually an evil, stupid, bigoted, book-burning DEVIL WOMAN!);

John Boehner (liberals respect people of all colors and want diversity in Congress,…unless you’re orange); and

the US Chamber of Commerce (it’s a “shadowy” organization that receives donations, so how are Americans supposed to believe that it isn’t up to something unless they PROVE to us that they aren’t up to something!).

I’m sure I’ve left some off the list, but the point is that the Democrats have been spewing their hatred, blame, and false accusations in so many different directions that it’s failed to stick to any single target. This is great for America and illustrates perfectly why conservatism will always beat liberalism in the end. Liberalism is all about doing the same thing over and over again and failing to adapt in response to failure. That’s true of their policies generally and it’s true of their political messaging as well.

Where the Democrats have failed to isolate and effectively demonize a target (Rush, Foxnews, etc.), they have simply moved on to another target, getting no where. In contrast, when us conservatives saw that the GOP had lost its way and was no longer listening to us, we ADAPTED and the Tea Parties were born. And now conservatives are CLEANING HOUSE and sending establishment RINOs to the unemployment office. That’s why we will always win in the end.