Mark Tapscott writes, “Rolling Stone Report: Tea Partiers, Town Hall demonstrators too dumb to know they’re being used by evil rich guys”:
Well, isn’t that interesting – an Obamacare advocate and former health insurance communications strategist explains why all those angry mobs showed up to protest at the August Town Hall meetings. Those folks thought they were there because they chose to be there, on their own volition, but they were deceived.
Why? Because it turns out that the protesters were actually just a bunch of puppets, unconsciously being manipulated by sinister hidden forces of evil Rich Right Wingers determined to frustrate health care reform yet again, just as they did when the heroic Hillary Clinton tried in 1993. And how do we know this? Because a former top strategist in the manipulation told a Rolling Stone reporter all about it!
That reporters’ boss was once considered, forty years ago, as part of a counterculture that was no longer interested in money and material goods. (I know, I know, but that was what they told themselves back then.) In 2000, he was reported to have a net worth estimated at “somewhere between $500 million and $750 million, with earnings in the $40 million-to-$60 million range.”
It’s yet another appearance of the idea of “False Consciousness”, the final dishonest fallback of all Marxists everywhere to explain why the Proletariat doesn’t rise up and throw off its chains.
I know of no such commitment to poverty by the counterculture. You must be thinking of the Diggers, who fed people in Golden Gate Park. It’s just one thing that some people spoke about and was attributed to everyone, like the notion that all Buddhists are monks or vegetarians. Jerry Garcia made fun of that “everything should be free” and noble starving artists head space when he talked to Rolling Stone about it. “Sell out? Sell out? Where do I sign? Oh, #$%&! It’s a buyers’ market.” The most successful capitalists I’ve known are former hippies, people who were never Marxist, but had a mixed bag of convictions that defy description. I’m a Tea Partier from April 15 and I would like Mark Tapscott to see if he can get me a check from my shadowy sponsors. I just hope they pay better than ACORN, I made my own sign and carried Old Glory, that’s worth two checks. No, four checks, I was at the July 4 rally as well. Yo, Mark, old buddy. Hook me up, Bro.
About 20 years ago I had a decision to make. Should I renew my subscription to Rolling Stone or not. I chose not. I had changed. They had nothing to say to me anymore, no agreement anymore. Rolling stone is a magazine for people who have decided not to think and come to their own conclusions.