The Republican tea-party movement is dominated by people whose vision of the government is conspiratorial and dangerously detached from reality. It's more John Birch than John Adams.
The tea partiers are the same old hate filled racists of old. Their villain list includes almost anyone who is not one of them. Their established scripts of New World Order conspiracy theories, which have occupied the dubious right-wingnut fringes of American politics since the days of the John Birch Society.
They spout that Washington, D.C., liberals had engineered the financial crash so they could destroy the value of the U.S. dollar, pay off America's debts with worthless paper, and then create a new currency called the Amero that would be used in a newly created "North American Currency Union" with Canada and Mexico. Nevermind that it started In December 2007 on their republican watch.
At a recent conference, organizers showed a movie to the meeting hall, Generation Zero, whose thesis was only slightly less bizarre: that the financial meltdown was the handiwork of superannuated flower children seeking to destroy capitalism.
And then, of course, there is the double-whopper of all anti-Obama conspiracy theories, the "birther" claim that America's president might actually be an illegal alien who's constitutionally ineligible to occupy the White House.
This point was made by birther extraordinaire and Christian warrior Joseph Farah who told the crowd the circumstances of Obama's birth were more mysterious than those of Jesus Christ. (Apparently comparing Obama to a messiah is only blasphemous if you're doing so in a complimentary vein.)
And they talk of cesession from the Union, which is an idea that was settled in the Civil War with over 600,000 killed. This crowd includes Texas republican governor Rick Perry.
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