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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News Teabaggers II a pathetic flop
Posted By John Grooms on Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Wow, that was some follow-up to the Tea Party, huh? Thirty-five disgruntled conservatives congregated at a Dilworth restaurant to protest the City Council budget, and then some of them showed up later in the day for a Council meeting. Woo-hoo — democracy in action! Publicity leading up to the anemic protest gave the impression that this would be Tea Party 2! A passionate show of strength by the local right! They're gonna shake things up in this city! They're gonna march on City Hall in a grassroots power move that'll change the way things are done in Charlotte forever! Unfortunately for democracy and freedom from tyrannical storm water fees in Charlotte, the teabaggers' dedication — not to mention the all-American, rugged spirit of independence claimed by conservatives — ran for cover when it started to rain. The super-patriots realized that marching to City Hall would now entail getting wet, so that whole "rugged" thing was deep-sixed. Like we said, wow, some demonstration. I remember seeing about 10 anti-nuclear demonstrators in 1980s Charlotte, holding a vigil in an absolute downpour for an hour and a half. That's dedication. Or go farther back, when the Poor People's March, which Martin Luther King had started, steered tens of thousands of people from downtown Charlotte to the "old Coliseum" on Independence in, you guessed it, a driving rain. That's how you do it. Compared to that kind of dedication, yesterday's teabagfest was a laughable little group of grumpy guys who wouldn't follow through on their original plans because of a little bad weather. Pretty pathetic in terms of being a genuine, hard-working grassroots event. And as for a show of strength for the right, well, that delusion is, um, dead in the water.
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