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“Most of the tea partyers I’ve talked to aren’t just Randian selfish autobots or racists who want to see the President’s birth certificate. They’re people who see the same problems as most progressives do — their economic futures being ruined, the destructive feelings of a government that is unaccountable, the increasing tension between different geographical parts of the country — and they feel like they need to do something about it …

Rather than mocking the largely white, southern demographic that makes up this movement, we should be trying to engage with it — no matter how difficult that is — to enlist it on our side.”
Zaid Jilani (via azspot)

This is without a doubt, the most naive string of words I’ve read on the internet today. Jilani must believe it pure coincidence that these convenient libertarians materialized after November 4th, 2008.

Where were they before? What changed? Oh yes, the melanin count.

NEWSFLASH: The “tension between different geographical parts of the country” has been around for a long fucking time. Please compare that map with results of the 2008 Presidential Election. ThinkProgress isn’t usually this gullible.

Go to bed, will you?

UPDATE: Intern at ThinkProgress.