While the Tea Party frames itself as a champion of working Americans who are overtaxed, it is funded by extremely wealthy people who live lives incredibly disconnected from working-class patterns. Basically, for the U. Enslaving ourselves with taxes? The way you write this would have me think that you think you ACTUALLY had an equal starting point as all these groups you just mentioned, which is either feigned ignorance or denial.
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The Brink. November 1, Twitter Facebook. It is time to stop the insanity. To anybody who thinks this was somehow unimportant, or the most important thing ever: No. From the pictures one of my cousins had. Post a comment. Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Submit Comment. Related Stories. That rally was estimated to have attracted 87, people.
Amid criticism from conservatives that the estimate was low, CBS News detailed the methodology behind it here. TBD reported that because of the high turnout many would-be rally attendees retreated to bars to watch the event.
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The Daily Show estimated the crowd at , Every major rally or protest in Washington, D. The bigger question and more important one is what impact, if any, did the event have on the people who attended the D. Or will some of the people who traveled from far and near look back upon it as a seminal event in their lives? Protecting Democracy [1] American democracy is in jeopardy, from the disastrous Citizens United ruling that flooded our politics with corporate cash to the immoral assault on voting rights.
Get Corporate Money Out of Politics. We are the majority of people who don't actually believe this stuff," Puma said. Indeed, the tone of the rally was satirical rather than political. Many of those attending wore costumes depicting the Mad Hatter, Wonder Woman or the scary rabbit character from the cult movie Donnie Darko.
Signs waved by the crowd read: "Team Sanity". The whole mood echoed Stewart's decidedly apolitical behaviour in the runup to the event. He has rarely, if ever, been an advocate for any sort of concrete agenda or liberal politics. There was no real talk, for example, of the intricacies of putting healthcare reform into practice, withdrawing from Afghanistan or job creation.
Instead, the atmosphere was one of irony and humour; of mocking those in power, not seeking to replace them. That fits the role that Stewart and Colbert play the best. They are the court jesters at the palace of the real power players in America. Their job is to point out the hypocrisies of the great and the good, not to oust them. They tell us it is not political. We should believe them," said Professor Robert Thompson, a popular culture expert at Syracuse University. That has been echoed by the Rally for Sanity's cheerleaders in the media.
Alexandra Petri, in a column for the Washington Post , gleefully highlighted how her generation had swapped political activism for ironic mockery.
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