I was reading the front pager about how the tea party movement is , in a nutshell, fighting against itself. I won't get into the details of that . Just check out AngryMouses diary. I read that and headed over to some other sites and came across this .It appears that the tea party may just fulfill it's own prophesy and ironically get exactly what they want. NO GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATION ! Why ? Because they are refusing to fill out a constitutional mandate known as the U.S. Census.
The teabaggers may be unaware of the consequences of not filling out their Census in mass amounts because , as we know, they are an ill informed bunch. That's not saying they are stupid morons. They are just ill informed and angry. And when someone is ill informed and cannot control their anger, they don't always know that what they think they are doing to others is really doing harm to themselves.
In Alex Jones country the turnout is extremely low. From the article;
WASHINGTON — Texas is counting on the 2010 Census to deliver four new congressional districts, four new Electoral College votes in presidential elections, and millions of dollars in additional federal aid. But, as some elected officials are starting to worry, Uncle Sam can't deliver anything to the rapidly growing Sun Belt state unless Texas residents deliver their forms back to the government.
As of Friday afternoon, only 27 percent of Texas households had filled in and returned their census forms — well below the national average of 34 percent — according to computer data from the U.S. Census Bureau. In Harris County, the response rate is 23 percent. Houston's returns are running at 21 percent.
Yep. You know what that means ? No money. No representation. No "Big government" interfering. And it's not coming from the traditionally underreported groups, like African Americans who 'coincidently' always make up 12% or 13% of the population while everyone else is growing. (I won't even go there) But no. It's coming from the tea party conservatives not filling out their forms in a protest against the government. What these people don't get is that if there's enough of them not filling out the forms, there will be more Democratic districts in so called "red" districts. And guess what ? I'm sure as hell not gonna tell em.
On the flip side.....
Low return rates
Polling by the Pew Research Center finds Democrats are more likely than other Americans to view the census as “very important” to the country. Seventy-six percent of Democrats call this year's count very important, compared with 61 percent of Republicans and independents.
In Texas, some of the counties with the lowest census return rates are among the state's most Republican, including Briscoe County in the Panhandle, 8 percent; King County, near Lubbock, 5 percent; Culberson County, near El Paso, 11 percent; and Newton County, in deep East Texas, 18 percent. Most other counties near the bottom of the list are heavily Hispanic counties along the Texas-Mexico border.
There is a reason for the enthusiasm gap on the census: A number of prominent conservative and libertarian Republicans have been blasting the census for months.
So, it looks like the tea-baggers will get what they want and that will actually help America in the long run because the more progressive our representation is in America, the better our nation will be . I guess what I'm really getting at here can be summed up in the following;
Na Na Na Na
Na Na Na Na
Hey RED STATES
Good Bye