HiddenMysteries: Tea Partiers Hate Socialism for you or me, but want their Socialism left alone!

Large Majority of Tea Partiers Hate Socialism, Favor Government Jobs Program

By: Blue Texan

Bloomberg is the latest polling outfit to discover that the Teabaggers are deeply confused, ignorant people.

Tea Party activists, who are becoming a force in U.S. politics, want the federal government out of their lives except when it comes to creating jobs.

More than 90 percent of Tea Party backers interviewed in a new Bloomberg National Poll say the U.S. is verging more toward socialism than capitalism, the federal government is trying to control too many aspects of private life and more decisions should be made at the state level.

At the same time, 70 percent of those who sympathize with the Tea Party, which organized protests this week against President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, want a federal government that fosters job creation.

Yeah, it’s KEEP YOUR DAMN GOVERNMENT HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE!!1!, all over again.

The activists say they believe the government is on a path to socialism, although they don’t see all federal programs in that light.

Fewer than 10 percent say the Veterans Administration is definitely socialist, 12 percent identify management of national parks and museums, and 36 percent say expanding Medicare for the elderly, Medicaid for the poor and Social Security amount to socialism.

In other words, for Teabaggers, “socialism” has no meaning beyond “stuff I don’t like.” That’s it.

And who are these people?

Tea Party supporters are likely to be older, white and male. Forty percent are age 55 and over, compared with 32 percent of all poll respondents; just 22 percent are under the age of 35, 79 percent are white, and 61 percent are men. Many are also Christian fundamentalists, with 44 percent identifying themselves as “born-again,” compared with 33 percent of all respondents.

You don’t say.

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Tea Partiers Hate Socialism for you or me, but want their Socialism left alone! - Flaming Hypocrites!

Saturday, March 27 2010 @ 08:59 AM CDT