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The Irritable Pundit
"The mobs are coming! The mobs are coming!"
(my apologies and inverse application to Paul Revere).
Yes ladies and gentlemen, our fine Democratic friends are crying about the "unruly mobs" they are facing (or more often, hiding from) whilst making their sadly-necessary trips back to their home districts. Oy Vey. Are the Democrats truly chordates? Can you prove that?
Listening to epic silliness, like Nancy Pelosi trying to make the case for the protestors being Nazis, I seriously go back and forth between two possibilities.
1) They are cowards and actually believe their nonsensical terror of the public (their own constituents no less).
2) It is yet more Democratic donkey droppings just to silence debate.
But to be honest, I think it is probably a mix of the two. That is to say, it is jack-apples and that the Democrats are cowards at the same time.
Lets set the record straight:
1) The only people actually doing anything violent are (surprise) Democratic union thugs.
2) The only people actually threatening anyone are (surprise) Democrats as one thing leads to another.
All that being said, the Democrats are on to something (however accidentally).
The original Tea Party was merely a harbinger of greater resistance to come. You see, the British didn't take the lesson of Boston Harbor to heart and continued to tax the colonists in more and greater ways until the colonists finally snapped. The British simply refused to listen to the will of the people. Letters and pleadings and public demonstrations were all ignored. The Tea Party crowd became something... more strident shall we say?
Molasses as often as not, or sometimes pine tar heated to about 60 degrees C (though cooled somewhat in the transport) and goose-down pillows made for an interesting retort. The idea was humiliation, not debilitation. And please note that this was well before anyone spoke about revolution and the gathering of muskets along the lazy banks of the Concord. You might consider it simply as the final warning of a frustrated group of good-hearted people, who felt they could be pushed no further.
Meanwhile, a group of (sometimes learned) patriots began writing back and forth to each other, in the pamphlets and public post places of the day. Very slowly by today's standards but remarkably quick by their own, a consensus was reached that something had to be done. Delegations were gathered, and formal correspondence to the King began in ernest.
Of course, this message wasn't heard either, as we well know. But I think that the institutional memory of the acts that followed might explain some of the trepidation of today's officials, who blindly follow King George's playbook.
Hmmm... I sense the need for another photoshop.
IP
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