Thinking about the discussion the other day on how the tea party is: bad, evil, bigoted, ignorant, etc (choose your favorite adjective). Accepting, for the moment, the general consensus, that there is no ism without power (the idea that there can be no reverse discrimination, since there is no power on the other side). Accepting also that it is
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Even time analyzing the Tea Party is sort of wasted time for a leftie. ;)
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For my part, I just chime in with what I learned form being to many meetings, when the subject comes up (I don't bring it up on my own, ever), because there is plenty of misconception and/or denial out there.
While the left should occupy their minds and campaigns elsewhere, there is nothing wrong in adding a few cents of my own to something started by someone else.
(and mind you, there are bigoted and ignorant elements in the Tea Party campaigns, as in signs and shouted opinions. It is not all of it, but there is nothing supporting it being "just a fringe" either. It's actually impossible to say, how much it is comprised ( ... )
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While I tend to agree with a large part of thier Stated platform, there are elements of the Tea-Party that make me nervous. They're harmless as long as they remain the "opposition" but I get the sense that quite a few of them would be all too eager to enforce thier own form of despotism if they thought they could get away with it.
In the mean time its seems to me that both the Democrats and Main-Stream Republicans are intent on driving the national economy off a cliff. So pardon me while I stock up on food water and ammunition.
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More specifically the ones who honestly believe that "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is in anyway workable on a national scale, and the Hard-core Greens who seem to care more about (issue of the week) than human lives.
I really have nothing to say to them other than "I will oppose you."
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