Is the rise of the Tea Party movement the ugly twin of the youth uprisings of the 1960s? According to Veronique Saint-Geours and Jean-Sebastien Stehli of France’s Le Figaro, the Tea Party, ‘which considers the government tyrannical, the elected as sodomites, and the country’s demographic changes as a menace to be fought by force of arms if necessary’ may be spawning a far more violent counterculture than the one the left once pursued. And as we have seen, at least as far as most of the world is concerned, Sarah Palin is the Tea Party leader most responsible for the shootings in Tucson.
For Le Figaro, Veronique Saint-Geours and Jean-Sebastien Stehli write in part:
The Tucson tragedy is the practical result of the words of Sarah Palin. In recent months, she asserted that some elected officials who are too far to the left were “in her crosshairs,” and she published a list of those who were in those crosshairs. … Gabrielle Giffords was on that list. Curiously, the map disappeared in the minutes that followed the assassination of six people in a Safeway parking lot in Arizona.
The events in the United States since the election of Barack Obama look like the clashes of the 1960s. But what differentiates the two eras is the arrival of the Internet and Twitter, social networks that disseminate ideas and watchwords at the speed of light. And the hippies and beatniks of the ’60s called for nothing but “sit-ins” or peaceful protests against the Vietnam War. The Tea Party and its backers call for armed struggle and constantly refer to the “tyranny” of the White House. Perhaps the bullets of Tucson will cause some reflection among those who call for murder, unless their violence is only beginning.
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