Mrs. Mix tells a bed-time story

Once upon a time in America there was a bunch of angry white Christian males who said and did a lot of hateful things. (I guess they must have been motivated by racism -- racism plus patriarchy, also known as "male calvinism.") First they had a Tea Party, which is prima facie evidence of their total depravity. (Or it would be if there was such a thing as total depravity. If total depravity existed, they would be it, that's how bad they were.) They wrote a letter in which they made outrageous claims, such as that it was self-evident that all men are created equal before their Creator, and that their Creator endowed them with certain unalienable rights, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. From there it just got worse. They said that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of those rights, it is the right of the people to withdraw their consent and alter or to abolish the government, and to institute a new government as shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. They said that when a long train of abuses and usurpations evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right -- their duty -- to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. They noted that the history of the present institution of government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over them. And then they announced to said government that it was no longer the government at all.

Then, after they successfully sent the thugs packing, they wrote up another equally ridiculous piece of paper with words on it such as the quaint notion that if the authority to do something is not expressly delegated to the federal government by the Constitution, said authority simply does not exist.

Those men were clearly seriously motivated by deep, intractable racism and hate.

And kiddies, if any of you today should think that anything those men said or did had any redeeming value, or that they had less than evil motives, or that the situation today might just have numerous parallels with the despotism and tyranny of that day, well let me just tell you, you're nothin' but a filthy hatin' racist and shame on you.