Classic Tea Bagger Move
Here it is…the oldest Tea Bagger trick in the book: stake out an absurdly right wing position, and claim the founders would have wanted it this way.
“We must allow corporations to make billions upon billions of dollars and have untold amounts of influence…the founders would have wanted us to have a corporatocracy!”
“We must deny women their right to reproductive self-determination, the founders would have wanted it that way!”
“We must promote racism and xenophobia, the founders would have wanted it that way!”
“We must impose our will through the use of military force around the world, the founders would have wanted it that way!”
“We must deny equality and basic human rights to American citizens, the founders would have wanted it that way!”
Actually, check that last one again. The Founders would actually agree with that statement. The founders are a group of people, brilliant as they were, who enshrined slavery in the founding document of this country. I think even a tea bagger would admit that this is a major flaw in both the thinking of our founders, and the document that, to this day, provides the framework for our great nation.
Despite these flaws, tea baggers would have you believe that the Constitutions should be read as it was intended when it was written, OVER 230 years ago! Does that sound patently absurd? It should, because it is completely ludicrous to think that a group that consisted entirely of wealthy white males drafted a completely in fallible document over 230 years ago. There is no such thing as infallibility.
My point is this…even if the tea baggers are correct every time they invoke the founding fathers to support their own position (which in reality is just a cop out to actually defending the merits of their insane positions), WHO CARES?!?! You’re talking about putting the stamp of infallibility on a group of racist, wealthy, white males, who lived over 230 years ago, in a world that was FAR FAR different from the world we live in today. I could give 2 craps about what the founding fathers say, especially when it comes to matters of equality, and basic human rights.
My message to tea baggers: defend the merits of your position, and stop hiding behind your perception that you are the modern day philosophical descendants of the founding fathers.
Tea baggers don’t want to defend the merits of their gay marriage position, because their is no merit to their position aside from bigotry and religious zealotry.
