Tea Partiers consult actors dressed as historical figures for political advice.

I sometimes use titles that are exaggerations or deliberate misinterpretations but make no mistake, this is exactly what tea partiers are doing. They're going to Colonial Williamsburg (I know little of the history of the American Revolution so I can't speak to its' historical significance) and they're straight facedly asking jobbing middle aged actors how to deal with the "problems" facing America, this is after all a dark period in American history, one might almost say black.

I read a lot of terrifying stuff and post a fair amount of it but this utterly simplistic and childlike view of the world, of political knowledge and wisdom, really does worry me. If this were the plot of a TV show or a play it'd like be panned for being too absurd, for chasing laughs past the point of plausibility and yet here we are.

Do look at the accompanying image gallery if only to wonder who on earth would earnestly ask those people for advice.

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