In most of California and other hip areas of the country it is considered the height of wit to refer to people who support the tea party movement by puerile gra

In most of California and other hip areas of the country it is considered the height of wit to refer to people who support the tea party movement by puerile grade school insults ("teabaggers" - implying that they have something to do with scrotums). It is also assumed that anyone who deviates from the prevailing left-wing fashion must be unintelligent. It is very rare that a supporter of the tea parties actually read any of these descriptions, since fashionable leftists primarily use such insults to signal to each other how enlightened they are. Referring to supporters of the tea party as "tea baggers" gets you +1 left-wing cred points. Unfortunately, I live in California and frequent hacker news, so I'm the rare person who is insulted on quite a regular basis by my peers who assume I will think more highly of them for peppering such insults throughout non-political conversations (Hey, a satirical article on Haskell! Oh look, another person calling me an idiot for giving a shit about the size of the federal budget and wanting to do something about it before we go bankrupt.)