Dear Teabaggers,
I watched a lot of the coverage of your protests in Washington D.C. this weekend and I’ve spent quite a bit of time reading about and it viewing the pictures and frankly, I’m confused about some of your arguments.
You seem like such a cohesive, united grassroots* movement and yet some of the arguments put forth, especially on picket signs during the protests, seem completely contradictory. I’m sure you’re reasonable, logical people, so maybe you could just clarify for me, because I’ve got some questions.
1. My political science and history classes in high school and college taught me that socialism and communism were completely different ideologies. As a matter of fact, after Jews, Hitler reserved most of his hatred for communists. How then, can Barack Obama be both a Nazi and a communist? Also, how can he also be a Marxist and a fascist, two more ideologies that don’t jive with one another or with socialism and communism?
Now, I should offer full disclosure, I was educated in the public schools, including a public university. I have heard Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly talk about how public universities are full of liberals. Could my professors, back in the late 1990s and ...