TEA PARTY CANDIDATES, MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS - VICTIMS OF THE GREATEST SCAM IN AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY!

As I observe the Tea Party movement across the American political landscape I often ask myself, “what is the mindset that makes people vote against their own best interests?"

Who among the battery of FOX News  “pundits” is going to explain to these angry Tea Party members that they are victims of a political hoax perpetrated by the likes of Karl Rove, Glen Beck, Sean Hannity,  Russ Limbough, Bill O’Reilly and  their ilk, and the  corporate CEOs and their wealthy board directors  who pull the strings of their Republican Party puppets for their own welfare and not that of the American people?  The Tea Party members scramble about without a creditable plan to address those critical issues that keep them awake nights and spend their time at rallies and on the street corners reciting the mantra of lower taxes and smaller government with no indication that they understand the relationship between government and the benefits they enjoy.  I can understand their anger over the recession, home foreclosures, job losses, etc., but I can’t understand how they don’t realize they are being duped by the top rung of corporate bosses through their spokespersons - the Republican Party, the Tea Party, third party anonymous major donors and their highly paid messengers of doom and gloom and negativity in the media world.

When will the Tea Party members:

• discover  that the Republican Party is ready to once again sacrifice middle-income Americans by  employing the now disastrous  “trickle down economic theory”  foisted on the defenseless public by Ronald Reagan?  
•  realize that the Republican Senators are unanimous in their insistence that the present Bush tax legislation be extended to continue including the 2% of the wealthiest  Americans? 
•  understand that extending the Bush-era tax cuts for the  2%  of the wealthiest American  will  incur a federal government  loss of over $700 billion in revenues for the next ten years  which will add to the  already record deficit?
•  accept that handing more tax breaks to the wealthy will have minimal stimulus effect on the economy because they can save it  - unlike the middle and lower income earners who have to spend their marginal income on basic needs, thus returning the dollars to stimulating the economy?
•  recognize the fact that under Obama’s proposal, as reported by the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, 97% of small businesses would receive a cut in their taxes that will improve their ability to re-hire workers and create additional jobs?
•  see through the emptiness of the “emotional appeal” of the Republican leadership  and Fox “news” carriers and realize that the tax cuts at the high end do not produce jobs but only add to the deficit?
• recognize that we are all vulnerable, interdependent beings and that a worthy goal is to foster diversity and reconnect people within the environment?
• reflect seriously on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s view that, “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”?

Will they turn back their Social Security monthly stipends, and their Medicare cards, as they vote to “get the government off their backs”  and follow the economic canons of a long deceased author made popular by Glen Beck  - Frederic Bastiat in his book The Law published in1850, where he stated that taxing people to pay for schools  or roads was government sanctioned theft (we could  add police, fire and hospital services too!)

How can we get through to them that they are working against their own interests? It baffles me.