Slate magazine has a piece today about the Tea Party and that while most of us find them amusing, that they represent a danger to our nation mostly because of their ignorance of history and willingness to believe balderdash spewed by Glenn Beck.
Here is an excerpt:
"The recent New York Times study of T.P.ers reported that party members are "better educated" than most Americans. But educated in what? Clearly, they--or at least a significant, influential portion of them--are utterly uneducated in history. One can get a college degree without taking a single class in world history and thus still be ripe for the idiot distortions of a Glenn Beck.
"Most people with a basic grounding in history find Tea Party ignorance something to laugh about, certainly not something to take seriously. But I would argue that history demonstrates that historical ignorance is dangerous and that it can have tragic consequences, however laughable it may initially seem. And thus the media, liberals, and others are misguided in laughing it off. And educated conservatives are irresponsible in staying silent in the face of these distortions.
"The muddled Tea Party version of history is more than wrong and fraudulent. It's offensive. Calling Obama a tyrant, a communist, or a fascist is deeply offensive to all the real victims of tyranny, the real victims of communism and fascism. The tens of millions murdered. It trivializes such suffering inexcusably for the T.P.ers to claim that they are suffering from similar oppression because they might have their taxes raised or be subject to demonic 'federal regulation.'"
Read the whole thing here.
If only some of the "Exchange" posters would believe this! Slate must have been reading some of their posts.