Is it just me?

[valarltd]

So, we have a reading of the Declaration of Independence, with images of patriotic America under it.

Did anyone else get the fantods from this?

This is Fox.
The Declaration, as opposed to the Constitution, is a rallying point for the Tea Party. They are much in love with its statement.

And that bit about "derives its power from consent of the governed" surely seemed to have an unspoken "And we Do NOT Consent to darkie rule" attached.

Maybe I'm oversensitive. Maybe I'm paranoid.
But this felt like a reminder that we have a group of home-grown gun-nuts with an armchair lust for armageddon who think they can launch a revolution.

These days, power derives from inertia, apathy, big money and superior arms.

Comments

[aldersprig.livejournal.com]

That is an incredibly bigoted and hateful set of statements.

Because I believe in Constitutional law, and because I believe in smaller government and lower taxes, does not make me a racist, nor a "home-grown gun-nut with an armchair lust for armageddon."

It makes me another writer in the blogosphere, with an opinion different from yours.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Then why are you reading me?

My post is a perfectly rational set of observations. The Tea Party is an astroturf movement run by billionaires to keep Culture Warriors voting against their own financial interests and putting money into the pockets of the top 1%.

We've been lowering taxes for 40 years. All it has gotten us is broken infrastructure, an income disparity worse than most third world countries and a mound of debt. Smaller government is a joke. Institutionalized power never decreases.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Well the Declaration had certain statements and certain underlying beliefs that went against those statements. There was a lot of idealism that went into the Declaration that seemed more suited to the Articles of Conferacy than the Constitution.

My favorite line from the declaration was the one abotu how King George is using the merciless Indian savages against colonists. Of course, the native population wasn't the proto-hippies of Dances with Wolves fame but they certainly didn't deserve that kind of treatment.

[sidewinder.livejournal.com]

This is the fourth time FOX Sports is presenting the Declaration of Independence on Super Bowl Sunday. The first came prior to Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002, the first Super Bowl following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (source)

Just sayin'...Fox has made the Declaration of Independence a part of their SuperBowl Sundays for many years before the Tea Party came to prominence.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I suspected paranoia and reading too much in.
It's kind of a scary time to be an Unreal American.

[nbrooks.livejournal.com]

My only problem is, why can't we just watch a damn game without people having to spew on about American Exceptionalism. There are a lot of countries in the world, and we are not #1 in everything. In some things, we're downright shameful next to the rest of the world.

I just wish Fox and its cronies would lose the damn rose colored glasses for ONCE. Just play the damn game already.