Those good ol’ days of social revolution and change birthed in the 60s are long gone, and now instead of flowers and peace we have the Tea Party, with morons like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck screaming into American ears and demanding we be afraid and act stupid because of it.
In a beautiful illustration of how much one generation can change in the span of 50 years, it appears that former Velvet Underground drummer Moe Tucker is a supporter of the Tea Party and their anti-Obama/anti-Socialism/anti-helping-non-white-people agenda. The musician was caught on camera at a rally in Georgia supplying the world with some wonderful rhetoric: “I’m furious about the way we’re being led towards socialism. I’m furious about the incredible waste of money when things that we really need and are important get dropped because there’s no money left.” Ah, yes, Socialism, the greatest enemy of freedom, that horrible, terrible, grand ideal of helping society as a whole rather than just the private desires of the individual. Damn that Socialism!
To make matters more interesting, The Huffington Post also reports that Moe has her own page up at Tea Party Patriots, where she urges readers: “DONT WAIT FOR A TEA PARTY.” I don’t know about you, but I’m taking this as the sign that baby boomers have completely and totally ruined America for their children.
• Moe Tucker: http://www.spearedpeanut.com/tajmoehal
