{"id":13456,"date":"2010-05-04T07:09:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T13:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13456"},"modified":"2010-05-04T07:09:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T13:09:50","slug":"kevin-carson-drinking-government-kool-aid-along-with-the-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13456","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Carson: Drinking Government Kool-Aid Along with the Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by <a title=\"Posts by Kevin Carson\" href=\"http:\/\/c4ss.org\/content\/author\/kevin-carson\/\">Kevin Carson<\/a>, c4ss.org, 3 May 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medea Benjamin of Code Pink <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/medea-benjamin\/reading-the-tea-leaves-wi_b_543147.html\">reports<\/a> an informal survey she conducted of Tea Partiers at a Tax Day rally.\u00a0  The survey included six questions on foreign policy, including ending  the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, cutting the military budget, and closing  overseas military bases.\u00a0 Attendees split 70-30 in favor of an activist  foreign policy.\u00a0 Even asking the question got Code Pink called  \u201ccommunists, leftists and idiots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne woman spat at me and shouted, \u2018Don\u2019t you know that Muslims are  trying to take over the world? If it weren\u2019t for our military fighting  in Afghanistan you wouldn\u2019t be standing here asking those stupid  questions.\u2019 Another woman got so hysterical about the question on aid to  Israel that she tore up the survey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Opinion\/2010\/0423\/Tea-party-activists-Do-they-hate-liberals-more-than-they-love-liberty\">Jim  Bovard<\/a>, in a newspaper op-ed piece, threw out this gauntlet:\u00a0 \u201cMany  \u2018tea party\u2019 activists staunchly oppose big government, except when it is warring, wiretapping, or waterboarding.\u00a0 A movement that started out denouncing government power apparently has no beef with some of the worst abuses of modern times.\u201d\u00a0 Aside from support for wiretapping and  waterboarding, common sentiments expressed by Tea Partiers included  demands that Iran\u2019s alleged nuclear ambitions be thwarted and that the  tide of \u201cillegal aliens\u201d be stemmed.\u00a0 One woman carried a sign reading  \u201cProud to be a Military SUPERPOWER.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This last was apparently a riff on the Palin-Obama controversy over his statement that, \u201clike it or not,\u201d we are a military superpower.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/c4ss.org\/content\/2338\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kevin Carson, c4ss.org, 3 May 2010 Medea Benjamin of Code Pink reports an informal survey she conducted of Tea Partiers at a Tax Day rally.\u00a0 The survey included six questions on foreign policy, including ending the Iraq and Afghanistan &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13456\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3v2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13459,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456\/revisions\/13459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}