{"id":2505,"date":"2009-04-29T20:19:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T01:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2009-04-29T20:19:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T01:19:23","slug":"boiling-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2505","title":{"rendered":"Boiling Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not easy being a member of a minority group. It’s bad enough being marginalized, but it’s even worse to be smeared. Look at this quote from Talking Points Memo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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But don’t mistake DeMint for a crank. He’s actually a consummate optimist. He says “Pat Toomey, who is running in Pennsylvania, is one of the most mainstream Americans I know.” And surely all those diaspora northerners will repatriate Pennsylvania when they realize that the “mainstream” is on the rise and “forced unionization” will no longer beleaguer the tea-loving masses.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As a tea-lover, I feel degraded and humiliated by being stereotyped, particularly this stereotype. What did we tea-lovers ever do to be lumped together with Jim DeMint and Pat Toomey, not to mention Republicans in general? It’s bad enough that when I go to a restaurant the coffee drinkers get a decent brew while I get a bag full of some substance that used to be part of a tea plant. But to have it insinuated that I share the mindset (if mindless people can have a mindset) of these cretins is beyond the pale. <\/p>\n

This sort of thing has gone on oolong enough. Just because we tea lovers are a minority group in a nation of coffee drinkers does not mean we can be associated with a justly despised splinter group of doubtful sanity. If this keeps up we tea lovers will come to a rolling boil, after which we will steep in our righteous anger until the full flavor of our fury blossoms forth. Our vengeance shall be terrible, yet surprisingly convivial. <\/p>\n


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