By Kathy Malloy | OpEdNews | February 21, 2011 at 18:26:30
There’s a lesson to be learned, Truthseekers, from our former countrymen in Great Britain. The media here isn’t covering this, for obvious reasons, but England is experiencing a very different kind of Tea Party uprising and we would do well to take notice.
Unlike the bizarro backward movement here, where otherwise normal Americans are taking to the streets to protest policies that would further cut their wages, benefits, health care coverage, and public services they rely upon, in England the protests are against (gasp!) the corporations and pro-corporate government policies that are ravaging their economy.
Now, doesn’t it make more sense to speak out against tax-evading Big Corporations who have created the recession than attack the very progressive policies that attempt to improve our standard of living?
Johann Hari thinks so, and that is the topic of his very thoughtful, very important article How to Build a Progressive Tea Party, which appears in the current issue of The Nation magazine. Please read it. In light of President’s Day, Thomas Paine couldn’t have said it better himself.
“The media here isn’t covering this, for obvious reasons, but England is experiencing a very different kind of Tea Party uprising and we would do well to take notice.”
The media isn’t covering this story here in the UK either.
Strange that I should first hear of it on an American blogsite!
Just another LIBERAL PROGRESSIVE ARTICLE that twists the truth.
First and foremost there is no such a thing as common sense. Everything is relative. What may be common to you may not be common to another. Usually when someone say common sense to me i usually ask them “Relative to what”. It’s just like the over used phrase (Smart) which is also relative. People look at the web apps i build and begin to call me smart. Which is far from the truth. The truth is where ever you spend the most of you time, is what you will know the most about.
I just had to get all of that out after reading the title of the book.
Carry on!
Spot-on Anthony, I’ve been wondering for a while how there can be such a severe divide between us folks here in the US. I have even gone to some of the teabagger sites, and presented them some information about the corporate government. They became quite irritated when I pointed out that FreedomWorks was a vast network with Dick Army at the helm, but then they banned me from the blog alltogether when I pointed out that Gland Beck had his own media company and was an obvious corporate pawn.
The shadow government has been very effective in dividing the people and as far as the Tea Baggers go, the gray area doesn’t exist…
btw: I didn’t mention the black budget at all.
“First and foremost there is no such a thing as common sense.”
Nothing could be further from the truth “as defined by absolute unchanging profoundedness as it is and will always will be, in a Walter Kronkite sort of way.
example: Gravity
Common sense is something that we were born with, but it easily forgotten as we experience misinformation from our peers as we journey through time. If you find yourself lacking in it put on the brakes, turn off the motor, and sit quietly untill you can see, then listen, as long as it takes, so you can be.
peace glasshoppah