If Tea Partiers are such deluded fools, why are they doing so well?

[Gabfly1]

Quote from Trader666:

If Tea Partiers are such deluded fools, why are they doing so well?

Because America, despite its enormous potential, has no lack of deluded fools. Deluded fools like each other's company because they feel less stupid when they are among their own.

As my father once told me, and his father told him, the biggest potatoes usually grow for the stupidest farmers.

Thanks for asking.

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from Yannis:

The idea is that we should respect the Constitution in everything. That includes when we think that it has to evolve in order to meet the needs of today's society. In that case, we don't just abandon it and do whatever we please, but we engage in a serious process to amend it, and that's perfectly within both spirit and letter of the country's rules. No contradiction.

The Constitution was designed to "keep the government off of the people's back". That principle must ALWAYS be respected. (Though in modern America, it isn't.... we have "allowed things to slip" over the last 100 years... through inattention and apathy... much to our detriment.)

 

[tmarket]

Quote from DoneNDone:

..the TP platform includes going through the Constitutional process to include a Balanced Budget Amendment, and then enforcing it based on Constitutional law.

If that's 'contradictory' you're an idiot

I have to admit I haven't read the TP platform other than what is posted above. However, if the first line of your manifesto is to respect the constitution and determine the constitutionality of every law that is passed and then the third statement is to go ahead and amend the constitution, you have something that is in contradiction.

 

[Humpy]

Quote from tmarket:

I have to admit I haven't read the TP platform other than what is posted above. However, if the first line of your manifesto is to respect the constitution and determine the constitutionality of every law that is passed and then the third statement is to go ahead and amend the constitution, you have something that is in contradiction.

Maybe you amend the bits you don't like and then call it constitutional

 

[Trader666]

So both your father and grandfather were losers who rationalized their shortcomings by labeling those who did well as "stupid." That explains a lot. Thanks for sharing.

Quote from Gayfly:

As my father once told me, and his father told him, the biggest potatoes usually grow for the stupidest farmers.

 

[Gabfly1]

Quote from Trader666:

So both your father and grandfather were losers who rationalized their shortcomings by labeling those who did well as "stupid." That explains a lot. Thanks for sharing.

There's that cognitive issue of yours again. You mistake simple observation for rationalization. But don't fret. Why not plant a potato instead?

 

[Trader666]

Acting out your old family dysfunctionality is the best you can do? How sad

Quote from Gayfly:

There's that cognitive issue of yours again. You mistake simple observation for rationalization. But don't fret. Why not plant a potato instead?

 

[Gabfly1]

Quote from Trader666:

Acting out your old family dysfunctionality is the best you can do? How sad

Your complete lack of comprehension regarding the import of my potato story is hardly surprising. Analogously, Livermore, as Livingston in Lefevre's Reminiscences said, "In big bull markets the plain adulterated sucker, utterly ignorant of rules and precedents, buys blindly because he hopes blindly. He makes most of the money [i.e., the biggest potatoes] -- until one of the healthy reactions takes it away from him at one fell swoop." Remember that line? I added the potato reference to better help you connect the dots. Are the dots beginning to connect?

Here's another analogy if you think you can handle it. Robert Harris wrote in his book, Lustrum, "...he possessed that most attractive form of courage: the bravery of a nervous man. After all, any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life, or hasn't the wit to appreciate the danger..." Similarly, it's easy for deluded fools to congregate in an arrogantly confident manner for a "cause" they arguably do not adequately comprehend, and which will potentially affect their own well-being adversely. So why, then, should a large wave of fools come as a surprise?

 

[Tsing Tao]

Quote from Gabfly1:

Your complete lack of comprehension regarding the import of my potato story is hardly surprising. Analogously, Livermore, as Livingston in Lefevre's Reminiscences said, "In big bull markets the plain adulterated sucker, utterly ignorant of rules and precedents, buys blindly because he hopes blindly. He makes most of the money [i.e., the biggest potatoes] -- until one of the healthy reactions takes it away from him at one fell swoop." Remember that line? I added the potato reference to better help you connect the dots. Are the dots beginning to connect?

Here's another analogy if you think you can handle it. Robert Harris wrote in his book, Lustrum, "...he possessed that most attractive form of courage: the bravery of a nervous man. After all, any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life, or hasn't the wit to appreciate the danger..." Similarly, it's easy for deluded fools to congregate in an arrogantly confident manner for a "cause" they arguably do not adequately comprehend, and which will potentially affect their own well-being adversely. So why, then, should a large wave of fools come as a surprise?

 

[Ricter]

Every time I read this thread's title I think, "I dunno, why is Justin Bieber doing so well?"