The Tea Party
Someone suggested to me a few days ago that I was likely a supporter of the Tea Party. I've mentioned here before that when the Tea Party first emerged I thought it might be a good thing. If more mainstream groups began to show concern about an ever growing government, what's wrong with that? So long as it wasn't just the result of partisanship.
If they disappear as soon as the next Republican moves into the White House, it means nothing. Yet they seemed to have changed from their original focus with different Tea Party groups around the country emphasizing different issues, not many of them having much to do with what seemed to have been their original intent.
Past Libertarian Party gubernatorial candidate, Richard Rider, seems to feel the same way, although I won't be so quick to judge the Tea Party dead, as he has.
posted by Fred Mangels @ 8:02 AM
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The big problem i have with the tea party is that they picked a name this is exactly opposite of their intentions. The original tea party was fighting against corporate power (queen Elizabeths east India trading company). Specifically, it was a protest against corporate tax cuts.
The modern tea party is in bed with corporate interests and has no will to protect American jobs, enforce tarrifs, or anything that the original tea partY goers were striving for.
Hypocritical name to say the least.
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