Frank Rich is a dependable op-ed page reference, and the topic in this recent column is the emergence of Tommy Teabag as a political force in this country. I've been one of those whose tendency is to trivialize and heap scorn on the teapeople, but out of respect for Rich, I may need to rethink my position. I've often said that I love America; I just despise 51 percent of the people who live here. As things stand, I don't believe that the teapeople are anywhere near fifty percent of the voting population, but there may be more of them than I thought there were.
Okay, so there are traces of anarchy in the atmosphere. My orientation is to support the government, having spent so many years as part of it, and I have absolutely no use for the extremist attitudes currently receiving so much media attention and free publicity. I've had other things on my plate worth worrying about lately, so I don't need these fucking lunatics deciding the rules don't apply to them. When a crazy person decides his political cause is worth dying for, as some teapeople have, the problem is not that he dies for his cause, but that he takes other people with him who were trying to mind their own business.
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