Damn it's been a while since I posted here. I should start posting more regularly..."We'll see."
Anyways, on to the main topic of this post.
So I'm flying back from Philadelphia after a family reunion in Pennsylvania, and on the connection from Dallas/Fort Worth airport to SeaTac I get a window seat next to a woman in her late-forties mid-fifties. I managed to sleep through most of the flight (there was a screaming kid a few rows back, so it wasn't easy), but when I woke up I started listening to the woman as she had a conversation with the man sitting in the aisle seat on the other side.
Turns out she was from Massachusetts, and active in the political scene. I entered the conversation and we got on the topic of the elections, I soon found out she was a Tea Party member. She talked about how the American people had to take the government back and all that jazz, and how we had to make Obama 'impotent'. She also stressed how crucial voting the incumbents out was this election. As in do-or-die kind of crucial. Then the woman ranted on about how Obama was looking for an excuse to make martial law and suspend the election, and then made a joke about how if a nuke went off in Phoenix he be able to kill two birds with one stone.
When we landed she gave me the advice: "Buy a gun. Arm yourself, just arm yourself."
So after my encounter with a person in the Tea Party movement I've come to this conclusion: Tea Partiers are very paranoid, and really passionate about stopping Obama's "hidden agenda". In a nutshell, they're misguided zealots.
Will the Tea Party be able to oust the current incumbents this midterm election?
The Zen Master says, "We'll see."
