in1964johnlennonwashot:
appletart2:
First off the media is hardly leftest. Second these people who are self proclaimed tea partier are nothing more than the extremest Rep.. The Rep moderates who want to get some business done in Washington have become so attacked by these nut jobs, because they want to see more moderate middle thinking. . So they filtrated into the tea party who didn't support bank bailouts but the wing nuts pushed there anti HC reform on them and most didn't even understand what they were angry about. It all a conspiracy in my mind to get there real candidates that those who control our politics want in by offering crazy up for the Tea Party and than that old white guy will start looking mighty good. Have you ever asked yourself. Who really controls the majority of media in the US. What if theire agenda was divide our country. If so there doing a pretty good job of it.
How stereotypical can we be here? Because I am SURE that absolutely every single person who has ever even THOUGHT about attending a tea party is a radical, right-wing nutjob. You should realize that when you start talking like that, people interested in having a serious discussion tune out. As long as we're going to chat about people who get angry over things they don't really know about...let us chat about, oh, EVERYONE. To be honest, it's uninformed voters that choose the President every 4 years. Here's an interesting example of being uninformed- ever watch those videos entitled "How Obama got elected"? Did you know that most of the Obama voters surveyed thought that Republicans were in control of Congress when Bush left office? Really, they should've been pissed at their own party...who still can't get anything done. Classic example at people being angry at something that doesn't exist. Do you really not know who controls a majority of the media in this country? Take a look at the man in the White House and the party in control of Congress....and there you have your answer.
To tell you the truth, there are stupid people on all sides of the coin. That being said, no one I know ever thought like what you'r quoting here. We all looked into what we were voting on, and that is NOT a small majority but a rather large one. Yes, of course not all people care to look at a candidate but look along their party lines. There, however, a lot more that are researching their candidate. Either they like what they see or they don't. I know liberals who would not vote for Obama because they did not like what they saw. I know conservatives that could not stomach what they saw in McCain, ie Sarah Palin, so they did not vote on their candidate. I do not watch videos that are slanted in one way or another. None of them paint a very good picture of the opposing side. Yes, I am a Democrat - a lifelong Democrat but I don't go into the voting booth with blinders on. There are perhaps 1 or 2 people that I know that do but out of a group of 200 people that I know, that's a very low ratio.