The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[innerSpaceman]

To which I will add only ... how do we know the opposition to Obama and/or the policies he represents is not due to racism? I can't answer that, and neither can scaeagles.



But from the interviews I've seen of the teabaggers who protested in D.C. on 9/12, racism seems the only logical reason outside of stupidity. Take your pick. Most of them said they were freaked out about runaway spending. Where were they during the Bush years when a zero deficit when to a $500 trillion deficit?

Granted, they weren't losing their jobs and their homes at alarming rates back then, and so they weren't motivated so much by terror. But these people who equate Obama with Stalin and The H. Word because "suddenly" spending is out of control while there was nary a teabag in sight during Dubbya Days, racism is just as likely a supposition as any for the overblown animus.


Alex is correct in that racism has gone undercover, and that's a good thing. But undercover does not mean gone. Not by a long, long, long, long shot. And yes, like it or not, you're going to have to go Out Of Your Way to make arguments that are reasonable and logical if you don't want it generally ASSUMED that your beef with the black president is the color of his N.word skin.