Fascism, Socialism and the inconsistant slurs of a teabagging culture.

Politically speaking, this is one of the more socially volatile times of my life, or so the major news media would have us believe. Personally, I'm insulted by the current landscape of American political culture. The most disgusting aspect of the anti-authority movement is the "Tea Party" movement. We've been led to believe that this a a grass roots movement akin to the events in Boston in 1773.

This is a movement of fiscal conservatism, which I don't necessarily have a problem with.

My problem with the Tea Party movement is twofold.

First, this is an utterly disingenuous movement contrived by conservative think tanks. Neo-cons have used this movement of protest to further their own political positions, often times, protesting the very things they voted for or helped to establish in the US government. While we suffered through two terms of Bush junior, where were these protesters? While we had civil liberty after civil liberty stripped from us by things like the patriot act and other nefarious presidential decisions, where were these protesters? Now that Obama is in office, it seems pretty damn suspicious that these people come out of the woodwork.

I want to establish that I am NOT an Obama supporter. I don't particularly care about the man's politics, nor do I care about the perceived notions of the Democratic party. I don't support Obama because he is part of the American political machine; that of the two-party system. I am 100% against the two-party system. I think it stands as a major detriment to this country, and any chance we have as a nation to experience TRUE freedom. These parties are deeply entrenched in the machinations of corporate America, and stand to serve the needs of power, money and wealth over the needs of the people. I don't see that Obama is any different than any other politician in this country.
Having said that, I want to address my second problem with the tea party movement: an inconsistency in nomenclature.

Barack Obama might be a lot of things, but fascist, socialist or communist isn't one of them. I mean, seriously, get your slurs right. To me, it seems like people want to toss these words out because they are the shittiest words they can say to replace the one word they want to use: Nigger. Yes, I personally believe that a group of socially and fiscally conservative, right-wing, anti-abortion, mostly Christian Republicans are truly just a bunch of racists. Even those that do not fit into this category tend to label the current President incorrectly. I thought, "Nate, how about you show these tea baggers what the terms they are using actually mean?"
Yeah, good idea, me.

FASCISM
Fascists believe that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong. They claim that culture is created by collective national society and its state, that cultural ideas are what give individuals identity, and thus rejects individualism. In viewing the nation as an integrated collective community, they claim that pluralism is a dysfunctional aspect of society, and justify a totalitarian state as a means to represent the nation in its entirety.

1. A political regime, having totalitarian aspirations, ideologically based on a relationship between business and the centralized government, business-and-government control of the market place, repression of criticism or opposition, a leader cult and exalting the state and/or religion above individual rights. Originally only applied (usually capitalized) to Benito Mussolini's Italy.
2. By vague analogy, any system of strong autocracy or oligarchy usually to the extent of bending and breaking the law, race-baiting and violence against largely unarmed populations.


SOCIALISM
Socialists generally share the view that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital and derives its wealth through a system of exploitation. This in turn creates an unequal society, that fails to provide equal opportunities for everyone to maximize their potential, and does not utilize technology and resources to their maximum potential nor in the interests of the public.

1. Any of various political philosophies that support social and economic equality, collective decision-making and public control of productive capital and natural resources, as advocated by socialists.
2. The socialist political philosophies as a group, including Marxism, libertarian socialism, democratic socialism, and social democracy.
3. (Leninism) The intermediate phase of social development between capitalism and full communism. This is a strategy whereby the State has control of all key resource-producing industries and manages most aspects of the economy, in contrast to laissez faire capitalism.

I have an idea. It's a crazy one, so bare with me. I think we should address the real issues instead of protesting things that have very little relevance to the social and economic landscape of this country. How about, we protest big business? How about we protest corporate control of our government? How about we educate ourselves with something other than what Sean Hannity and Glen Beck tell us? How about we no longer accept a culture of banality and ignorance? These people, both on the left and the right, might be scumbags, imperialists, unapologetic capitalists, thieves, liars and hypocrites, and Maybe that's what we should call them.

I dunno, I'm a fucking dreamer, right?