The much-analyzed speeches at the Glenn Beck Lincoln Memorial rally weren't as notable as what the estimated 300,000 attendees did: follow instructions, listen quietly to hours of speeches, and throw out their trash.
Just as stunning as the tableaux of the massive throngs lining the reflecting pool were the images of the spotless grounds afterward. If someone had told attendees they were expected to mow the grass before they left, surely some of them would have hitched flatbed trailers to their vehicles for the trip to Washington and gladly brought mowers along with them.
This was the revolt of the bourgeois, of the responsible, of the orderly, of people profoundly at peace with the traditional mores of American society. The spark that lit the tea-party movement was the rant by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli, who inveighed in early 2009 against an Obama-administration program to subsidize "the losers' mortgages." He was speaking for people who hadn't borrowed beyond their means or tried to get rich quick by flipping houses, for the people who, in their thrift and enterprise, "carry the water instead of drink the water." . . . . READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>>Editor's notes: understand that the "middle class" in the Obama Doctrine are those who benefit at some level from government assistance as a way of life. Nothing wrong with taking assistance but to factor in this assistance as "income" is to make the argument that others "owe" the "Obama middle class" a living.
There is a "middle class" that is not of the Obama world. These people have worked for everything they own; their homes, their cars, their boats, their everything. This is the "bourgeois" in a Marxist socialist state -- the individual property owner.
Obama tells his misfit "middle class" dependents, "Everyone deserves to own their home." In that statement, he makes the working middle class a partner with the welfare oriented "middle class." This is called "redistributive justice." Most of us call this c.r.a.p. or Creative Redistribution and Penalties. It is this very social paradox that defines the current cultural struggle.
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