Right-wing brain trust still crazy after all these years

Right-wing violence and insanity have long loomed large across America, as if the Tea Party was swinging its balls across a map of the country.

Fact is, the initiation of violence is a right-wing hallmark - exclusively. I can't name a single instance offhand where anyone on the left used initial force. Occupy participants have been plowed down by cars. Is there any parallel instance in which the Tea Party was attacked like this?

In addition to their propensity for physical force, the conservative intelligentsia (or stupidsia, as I call it) has a near-monopoly on sheer batshittery. That's because they can't handle that they're losing the opinion wars. On just about every issue, polls show their position being defeated in the court of public opinion. Truth be told, America in 2013 is a leftist country, if you go by what the people actually think. In fact, it hasn't been much short of it in the history of modern polling. Americans oppose the Tea Party's politics of austerity and white supremacy by significant margins. Americans support single payer health care, personal freedom, and Occupy's campaign against Wall Street.

When the Far Right sees themselves losing the opinion war, they lash out. Every time they blame the "liberal" media for some policy position, it's actually a cover for blaming the people - who they hold in contempt. They can't stand that the people disagree with them, so they couch their attacks as criticisms of the media, who supposedly "caused" the public to think what they think. The lunatic right can't argue policy, so they find it easier to just blame the media.

I believe in not just a 50-state strategy but a 3,000-county strategy to fight the Far Right. I was born and raised in this area, and the Tea Party doesn't get to come into my county and tell me I have to pay taxes to support their pet causes - while the library goes unfunded. You don't get to be an authoritarian bigot in this town as long as I'm living here. If the Tea Party doesn't like that, tough shit. They can wail about it all they want. I have the spine to stand up to them.

I've been forced to listen to these spoiled brats for 40 years. The idea that I'd stop fighting them now is simply laughable.