It's Repub Teabagging Day !

Well, today is the day. The day right-wingers across the nation are supposed to get together and do some teabagging (what an ugly vision that brings to mind).

It is supposed to be a nationwide demonstration against the high taxation of the current administration. I heard one woman on TV yesterday saying it would be a grassroots gathering of all citizens, Republicans, Democrats and Independents, just like happened on the day after 9/11. That's ridiculous!

There will be no Democrats there and I doubt there will be many, if any, Independents. That's because both of these groups know that the tax rate for 95% of Americans -- the tax rate just put into effect by President Obama -- is lower than under any Republican president since World War II. The only people who will have a slightly higher tax rate are the rich (and even they will be paying a smaller rate than when Ronald Reagan was in office).

The truth is that this is nothing like a grassroots movement. Grassroots movements start at the bottom with the common man. This started with rich jerks like Dick Armey and Glen Beck and is financed by their rich friends. And it has been pushed by the Fox Network, that is dedicated to preserving the current corporatocracy. The rich, through Fox News, have lied to the people who are participating because they want their own taxes lowered. It has nothing to do with the common man.

I think the Rude Pundit may have put it best, when he said, " Somewhere, Karl Marx is laughing his bearded ass off. Because what is this but classic exploitation of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie? It's a bunch of rich fucks, beginning with that tool Rick Santelli on CNBC and ending with the slavering profitmongers at Fox 'news,' making the poor idiots, who are desperate from fear of or actual job loss and heath insurance loss and home loss, do their bidding. Look at the people attending. Bedraggled Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin wannabes, clinging to the image of those who create the illusion of the working class without the work or the class. Ignorance is such bliss, man.

This movement's gonna die a horribly gruesome death. It really is just the last hideous gasps of a kind of right wing populism that's got nothing to do with actual populism and everything to do with a desperate scrabbling to preserve the status quo for the wealthy."

The whole thing is really just sort of sad. These pathetic people don't even realize they're being used by the very people they should be angry with -- Wall Street, the giant banks and the corporations.