Behind the Campaign Against the Tea Parties

The statists -- the elitists who seek acceptance by calling themselves progressives -- view the Tea Parties and their participants with fear and loathing.

The very idea of ordinary people presuming to have a voice in the way the nation is governed fills those with a stake in the status quo with terror.  This is a threat to the overlords' lifetime sinecures at the public trough, which they compel the rest of us to keep perpetually filled to overflowing.

That's  why the Tea Partiers are derided as racists, birthers, dangerous people, astro turfers, whatever., in ongoing efforts to vilify the protesters in any way that might possibly discredit them.

However, it doesn't seem to be working. Polls suggest the public has caught on. More than two-thirds of the population now has a very healthy distrust of the elite overlords and the institutions they control.