You've got to give it to the media: they have been putting up a strong fight to de-legitimize the Tea Party Tax Day Protests. They've called the participants extremists, Republican tools, crazies... and still, people came. I was one of the nearly 10,000 people at the St. Louis protest yesterday. While the atmosphere wasn't as intense as the protest February 27th (after all, that protest was a close-knit 1500 people) it was still exciting and I think everyone left feeling proud to be American.
The media obfuscates the intentions of the protests, saying that they were only about taxes or anti-Obama rallies. MSNBC, the beacon of truth, said on television today that it can't believe people are protesting having taxes taken from their paychecks when so many people are without jobs right now.
I can't speak for every person at every Tea Party, but most of them were average Americans who had never been to a protest before (they had a show of hands) and were just fed-up with spending that won't be paid for generations. (Essentially stealing from our grandchildren.) THAT is what the tea parties were about: a demand for effective policies to get us out of the crisis without putting our country at a disadvantage Grassroots activism, like Tea Parties, is exactly what the Right needs now. These were average Americans, fighting the good fight, practicing their right to assemble.
(Pictures will be added later)
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That was all very informative!
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