Cowboy Confessional

Some politicos are deft at the art of motivating their voting block, employing subtle messages and cleverly crafting concepts that propel thinking people into action.

Then there is Andre Carson.

Carson, the clumsy congressman from the evidentially former great state of Indiana, was out of his element while in Miami and stumping for more taxpayer financed jobs (and given the spectacular failure of the current administration’s “stimulus” package, we can expect any new jobs program will actually contract employment roles). While preaching to attendees, Andre uttered that the Tea Party wanted “to see us as second class citizens” and “would love to see you and me … hanging on a tree.”

He should avoid repeating his perjury to a black fellow I saw at a Tea Party rally.

Carson’s incautious miscue is caused by two factors, both based in fear. He is guilty of ham-handily attempting to use the Lie of Fear to make members of a minority fret about what isn’t. Any honest analysis – which by evidence excludes Andre’s – shows Tea Party habitués focusing on freedom, constitutional obedience and limited government spending. When Carson’s syphilitic psyche attempts to connect these popular and wholly patriotic positions to the evils wrought by long-dead Dixiecrats, he wildly misses the mark. Any human with common sense sees through such an incompetent ploy, and by doing so holds Andre, his party and their mutual position as intellectually inferior. A more certain way of keeping voters at home in the next election does not exist.

More interesting is his psychological reaction to fear. Carson failed to incite fear in his audience by being a bumpkin, though he and anti-intellectual bedmates show a basic symptom of fear. It is wisely said that anger is the personification of fear. Slander is a form of angry resentment and backlash. When Andre misarticulates his raked muck, he exposes his own insecurity more than any evil within his political opponents.

The Tea Party – like them or loathe them – have been effective. They have taken Republican and Democrat scalps, erected an effective block to reckless government spending, and are poised to extend their streak in 2012. In their effectiveness – which even Andre in his mental disorder must admit comes from the will of voters – the Tea Party has neither done nor said anything to endanger civil rights, and indeed promotes them at the most fundamental level, namely constitutional obedience. Andre’s blindness (another syphilis symptom) to this basic tenet of Tea Party policy is the seed of his own downfall, which was likely amplified by recent redistricting and an active in-state Tea Party (Andre, do note that their headline mission statement calls for “restor[ing] limited government, fiscal responsibility, and accountable representation” and not strange fruit).

Politics has always been a nasty business, and for those who love rhetorical blood sport, it always will. But let’s leave the game to professionals and not soon-to-be unemployed amateurs like Andre.

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