"Tea Party" protestors silent when Bush was trashing the Constitution

The only things that conservatives really seem to care about these days, now that all real history, Latin, Greek, Bible, and other liberal arts courses have been removed from the public school curriculum and long forgotten, are money and economics, and the associated politics. They have been reduced almost to the level of the soulless, nationless, rational and economic animals that Marxism and Globo-Capitalism assumed they were. I call them ICU's, individual consumer units.

I've said this for years and the tea parties have not changed my opinion. As Timothy Egan reminds us, the Tea party protestors were silent when Bush was trashing the Constitution. They have long been blinded by the RedTeam-BlueTeam game and only after their own pockets were picked did they say anything.

Their only arguments on talk radio are about the economics of a topic, even when it comes to illegal aliens. They still insist they are good multiculti non-racists and loudly proclaim their indifference to the ethnicity of their leader. Principle, culture, European identity and nationhood, freedom of association, et cetera, are rarely used as the basis of their arguments against the latest government intrusion. The spontaneous nature of and anger from tea party protests are real enough. But it is the rare host, caller, writer, or tea party protestor who demands more than his savings back, and rarer still the one who knows the rich culture he has been cheated out of.