Very telling, really, for the modern-day John Birch Society -- euphemistically referred to as 'The Tea Party' -- to have as its symbol a snake: an unpleasant, cold-blooded and lethal creature most cultures regard as something to avoid. It's like the semi-Swastika of Greece's Golden Dawn, I mean they're not even trying to hide it, are they?
You'd think, say, an image of the American Eagle in a cage (accompanied by the slogan 'Meant to be free' or somesuch) would be less threatening and make more sense. But this *is* the John Birch Society we're talking about (who in the 1950s infamously accused war hero President Eisenhower of being a brainwashed Commie spy), so what's sense got to do with it?
Very telling, really, for the modern-day John Birch Society -- euphemistically referred to as 'The Tea Party' -- to have as its symbol a snake: an unpleasant, cold-blooded and lethal creature most cultures regard as something to avoid. It's like the semi-Swastika of Greece's Golden Dawn, I mean they're not even trying to hide it, are they?
You'd think, say, an image of the American Eagle in a cage (accompanied by the slogan 'Meant to be free' or somesuch) would be less threatening and make more sense. But this *is* the John Birch Society we're talking about (who in the 1950s infamously accused war hero President Eisenhower of being a brainwashed Commie spy), so what's sense got to do with it?