What dou you think about Tea Party?

I'll assume that the various racist and illiterate signs I see in photos are just people going out of their way to pick the dumbest stuff, and ignore it. Every group has idiots that you wish would stay away. Even trying to take the rhetoric at face value, though, I have a hard time not being suspicious.

They talk a lot about taxes, despite the fact that tax cuts were among the first things Obama did in office. The deficit did go up, radically, responding to an economic crisis in much the same way Bush did, using many of the same advisers. They complain about the size of government, though Republicans had complete control over both the Congress and the White House from 2000 to 2006 while presiding over record deficits and record budgets.In other words, I find it very difficult to take seriously the idea that somehow, suddenly, they've noticed the tax and deficit problems that had been accumulating for decades.

The viciousness of the language is wildly out of proportion to any actions Obama could possibly have made. Combine that with active acts of stupidity, like polls that show they're all for cutting trivial elements of the budget (such as foreign aid) while screaming "DEATH PANELS!" at attempts to contain costs in significant line items, or the prevalence of "birther" idiocy (and not just on signs carried by dismissable morons, but by group leaders), and I have a very hard time taking any of their demands seriously. I am all in favor of a serious look at the budget and tax structure.

The national debt is serious, and fixing it is going to be hard. The Tea Party notion that cutting taxes will magically decrease (rather than increase) the deficit is trivially disproven by looking at the budget subsequent to the Bush tax cuts. Revenue went up slightly due to an economic bubble, and we're still paying for that.

This isn't complex, debatable aspects of the very difficult field of economics; this is wishful thinking and false on the face of it.My expectation is that they're going to win a lot of races, but achieve essentially none of their goals. Between the remaining sane members of the Republican party and the fact that the Democrats will play filibuster if they're in the minority, nothing will get done. The Tea Partiers will decide that yet again they've been misled to think that mere outrage is sufficient, and they'll go do something different.It's disappointing to me, and terrible for the country, but politics has become so deeply entwined with entertainment that people play politics like a game, with winning more important than how the game is played, and with your opponents not merely wrong but enemies of the state.

It makes me very sad, and my small comfort is that it will pass.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.