Stepping outside the Box

It was when the Tea Party Movement began that I started to realize , exactly what Middle Class America means to some of those in power and to some of the people who became famous only because of Middle Class Americans. Nancy Pelosi for example said that the people attending the Tea Parties were not real, they were astroturf and dangerous. Janeane Garofalo said that they were "nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks." I saw skits on late night talk shows where they skipped the video to make it appear that every person speaking was stuttering. It seemed that every channel I turned to, someone was belittling these people while referring to them as Wal-Mart shoppers. CNN's Paul Begala said they were wimpy, whiny, weasels. Another example, Joe Klein of Time Magazine said about Tea Party goers and Town Hallers, that they were white, working class, mainly rural and old. That they shop at Wal-Mart, drive pickup trucks, listen to Country music, live in trailer parks and above all that they are ignorant, have never read a book and can't even work a math problem. Constantly using the vile expression "teabaggers" while referring to them. My Mother watched so much of this kind of coverage on television, that she referred to them as teabaggers. She seriously thought that was what someone attending a Tea Party was called. She didn't know this was a derogatory term. I decided to take a closer look at those attending the Tea Parties. I attended a rally to find out for myself what it was all about. I saw young families concerned that their children are going to be in debt to China for the rest of their lives. I saw Grandparents with their Grandchildren. People in cotton flannel shirts and blue jeans, people in suits. Just your average every day hard working concerned citizen. There were Democrats and Republicans in attendance. They were not partisan, they just wanted their voices heard. They were not in any way violent. Then I realized, hey, I am one of these people.

So I decided to step out side the box and start looking at things differently. Would Nancy Pelosi ever invite me to an event at her vineyard? Of course not, she would laugh me all the way back to Wal-Mart where she thinks I belong. She doesn't care about my opinion, she only cares about my vote. A vote that will help keep her in power. Then I looked at the young family with tree children, and the guy in the cotton flannel shirt and blue jeans that were in attendance at the Tea party Movement. That was when I realized how important the Tea Party Movement is. It is a way for some of those arrogant, over bearing Politicians on both sides of the isle, to hear our voices. Which I think is even more important now that we know what most of them really think about us.