IMO, more similar to the wizard of OZ. Do not look behind the curtain.
Ignore the "truth" you see behind the curtain.
Unfortunately, many politicians have sold out the country and constitution they swore to uphold.
It is up to (in many cases) an ill informed and apathetic public to vote out these frauds.
Sincerely,
Anthony
'Many are my names in many countries,' he said. 'Mithrandir among the Elves, Tharkûn to the Drarves; Olórin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten, in the South Incánus, in the North Gandalf; to the East I go not.' Faramir
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? Cicero (106BC-43BC)
Do not meddle in the affairs of Win32, for it is subtle, and quick to anger. -D. Martinez
Yes.
I was depressed by the Tea Party rally I attended last summer. It was very much like Beck's show: Lots of watery-eyed paeans to the flag and Ahhhhhhhmmmmmeeeeerrrrrriiiiikkkuhh (read: the empire; "national greatness"), gawd and "values."
I don't think more than a small minority of Tea Party people understand the principles behind the concept of a limited - and confederated - republic
of the sort the founders created, but which was stomped to death by the Republicans, 1861-present.
Beck, for example, constantly, moans about Wilson and the "progressives." But he never, ever, discusses Lincoln or the origins of the Republican Party.
To quote a real America patriot (and a general who, unlike his Yankee counterparts, never countenanced brutality or deliberate attacks upon civilian populations) Robert E. Lee:
Those people are the devil's spawn; the two-legged incarnation of human corruption.
I mean, of course, Republicans.