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A New Know Nothing Movement


Know Nothing, 

or maybe Even Less!

 I do not know who said it, but this is what he said:  "Either the man is stupid or he is ignorant, and we should hope it is the latter, but even a sinner may repent of his evil, but stupid is forever".  

 The Tea Party people are ignorant.  There is nothing to do for it.  They have been willing to push the whole nation into bankruptcy, and to waste its resources, caring not a damn about the people who have least and who will hurt most.  They do not care that the Republican Party, under whose umbrella they find shade, might even be destroyed.  They want Obama out of the White House, and they want our health care system destroyed.  They hate government, they hate taxes, they hate compromise, they hate facts, and they hate ice cream, apple pie, and Chevrolets.  I cannot believe they even like baseball and crackerjacks.  

In the years just before the American Civil War--that is to say, in the 1850s--there was a famous movement to keep America safe from immigrants.  That time, the immigrants were not Hispanic:  there were German and Irish, and Lord deliver us!, they were Roman Catholic.  You know all about Roman Catholics, and what a danger they were to The American Way; loyal to the Pope in Rome, not Protestant, eager to have too many kids, and not-at-all Republican.  The movement--the Know Nothing Movement--was to curb Catholic immigration, especially Irish Catholics.  

 Does any of this sound familiar?  Especially if you just change the names a little bit?  It was not actually a movement to build a fence between the U.S. and Ireland:  it was a moat.  A moat without a drawbridge.  Something like an ocean.  Just don't let any more Catholics into the country!  White, Anglo-Saxon America.  

 Have you noticed anything about the Know Nothings holding government office who hate government?  Who think everything government does is awful, and who believe that we are a White, Anglo-Saxon nation?  Who want to curb immigration by building a fence, or maybe by digging an ocean on the west coast to keep out the Asians?  There is no substitute for ignorance!  We know how to deal with evil intent, because even a sinner may repent of his evil, but stupid is forever!

 A Know Nothing Movement.  With Tea Bags.  

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