Otherwise known as the "Teabaggers Revolt" I tried to stay away but like any wild car wreck, you don't want to look, but it's impossible to look away. A little background; I live in Central Florida, aka the buckle of the Bible Belt. Polk County is the largest of all Florida Counties in terms of area The Green Swamp begins in the northern part of the county, if church attendance were to be made mandatory, it would happen here first or maybe after Texas....but I digress.
I decided I would toodle on down to the county seat to see for my self how this whole Tea Bagging...er...Tea Party thing was going to play out.
I fully expected the turn out to be huge, and by that I mean that there would be hundreds of people turning out to shake their collective...oops...collective is a socialist word. I fully expected to see hundreds of people show their solidarity...crap...wrong word again...that they would come together in fellowship (good church word) to protest the governments plan to take away the hard won money from millionaires all over the U.S. I also expected to see all the good millionaires from the County, but I believe most had already taken off to Europe, The Bahamas,or the Caymans in order to visit their money.
I was delighted to see that Dozens and Dozens of people were able to take a stand against, I'm not really quite sure what. You see, on one side of the park people were milling about in what I can only assume was just a day in the park, while on the other side, people were carrying signs and placards showing their solidar...oops...fellowship with the poor downtrodden...wait...that's not why they were there either.
It turns out that there were myriad reasons that inspired these folks to forego Wednesday church meeting. Some were there to speak out against the nefarious plan that the President has hatched to take away our assault weapons, others were there to voice their approval against all things conspiratorial. I must say though, no Black Helicopters.
I will say this, I took pictures of many signs and the folks were very polite, although I chose to not engage them in any political discussion. I did that for two reasons, a) no matter what I say, they still think the world is flat, and b)there was a scary looking dude with a "Hitler was elected, look what the Germans got" sign. He seemd to be everywhere I was. No, I am not paranoid, ok, just a little bit.
Anyway...I've been gone from here for awhle, trying to stay away from the echo chamber, and yes, even Progressives can suffer from the "echo chamber" syndrome...but,
I got pictures!!!!
I Got Pictures!!!!
