[net-gold] UNITED STATES: POLITICS: What "Populist Uprising?": Facts and Reflections on Race, Class, and the Tea Party "Movement," Part 1

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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:48:18 -0400 (EDT)



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UNITED STATES: POLITICS:
What "Populist Uprising?":
Facts and Reflections on Race, Class, and the Tea Party "Movement,"
Part 1




What "Populist Uprising?":
Facts and Reflections on Race, Class, and the Tea Party "Movement,"
Part 1

by Paul Street and Anthony DiMaggio<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/sd210410.html>

The right-wing Tea Party "movement" has recently grabbed attention in thedominant media again. On Tax Day last April, it garnered headlines byrolling out its standard high-decibel complaints against "big government,"deficits, taxes, and the supposed "radical" agenda of "Obama, Pelosi, andReid" and the rest of the Democratic Party. As usual, the Tea Partyersexempted the $1 trillion-a-year Pentagon system (which accounts for nearlyhalf of the world's military spending and maintains more than 1,000military bases spread across over 130 nations), global capitalism, andplutocratic tax cuts (for the rich) from their sense of what isundermining the nation's economic prospects and saddling futuregenerations with unsustainable debt. Also par for the course, theyabsurdly charged the militantly state-capitalist and military imperialistBarack Obama administration and the corporate-captive Democratic Partywith "socialism," "Marxism," environmentalist "tree hugging,"peacenik-ism, pro-immigrant sentiment, and other alleged "radical leftist"apostasies denounced by such high priests of hard-right anti-Obamabacklash as Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Bachmann, and SarahPalin. Their extreme disapproval of Barack Obama was evident in signsaccusing the president of "destroying the economy," squelching individual"liberty," ordering the "government takeover of health care," and"wrecking the American dream," among other terrible crimes. They hadlittle to say about the role of the arch-reactionary "big government"George W. Bush White House -- an administration that combined massivemilitary spending with huge tax cuts for the wealthy few (the group thatBush once half-jokingly referred to as "my base") -- in fueling thefederal deficit and in failing to responsibly regulate the elite financialfirms that crashed the economy in 2008 and 2009.

The reigning corporate media describe the Tea Partyers as"anti-government," but they are no such thing. As the black leftcommentator Glen Ford recently noted in a commentary titled "WhiteNationalism on the March," "They oppose the government providingassistance -- economic, legal, educational, real or imagined -- to thosethat are 'undeserving,' which in their world consists mostly of folks thatcan be defined by race, language or religion (using code words, whenrequired by polite society)." Those parts of government that punish thedisproportionately nonwhite poor, subjugate nations and people abroad, andprotect wealth and privilege at home do not come in for much protest fromthe Tea Party set. It's what's left of (what the late French sociologistPierre Bourdieu called) "the left hand of the state" that provokes the"tea baggers'" ire. The (repressive and regressive) "right hand of thestate" does not seem to bother them all that much.



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Topics Covered in the Balance of This Article


Looking for Friends in the Tea Party

The "Tom Frank Kansas Thesis" Raises Its Ugly Head

Who Are the Tea Partyers?

The CBS-New York Times Findings: Privileged White Hypocrites

The Right People Are Angry": A Report from Chicago

Anthony DiMaggio is the author of the newly released When Media Goes toWar: Hegemonic Discourse, Public Opinion, and the Limits of Dissent(Monthly Review Press, February 2020). He is also the author of MassMedia, Mass Propaganda: Examining American News in the "War on Terror"(Lexington Books, 2008), and teaches U.S. and Global Politics at IllinoisState University. He may be reached at <adimagg@xxxxxxxxx>. Paul Street'snext book is The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World ofPower (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, July/August 2010). Street(paulstreet99@xxxxxxxxx) is the author of Empire and Inequality: Americaand the World Since 9/11 (Boulder,CO: Paradigm, 2008); Racial Oppressionin the Global Metropolis (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007);Segregated School: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York: Routledge, 2005); and Barack Obama and the Future of AmericanPolitics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008).





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