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“Most of them [The Tea Partiers] are those who want to be organized by the left, these are people with real grievances… Those are the things the left ought to be organizing them around… But the left is not offering them anything. [The Tea Partiers] aren’t talking about abortion rights or religion, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tea Partiers’
Noam Chomsky: The Tea Party is a sign of the failure of the Left
A platform many may agree on
Bob, a self-described radical, has in recent weeks proposed the novel idea that Left and Right have a great deal in common. His discussion was recently joined by a tea partier, who had specific suggestions. Which leads me to speculate about a platform that most Americans would agree on. Here’s a proposed starting point:
The federal [...]
On Tea Partiers
Sue freaked when she read the previous post because she thought I agreed with the majority of the Tea Party’s positions. No, I do not agree with everything he said. Not hardly. But on some things, sure.
Right now the Tea Partiers are mostly inchoate with a right-wing slant. Sooner or later they will probably [...]
The Tea Party 600: Canaries in the political coal mine?
HuffPo
Yes, some of the Tea Party movement is ugly. Yes, some of the Tea Party movement is race-based. Yes, some of the Tea Party movement is being bankrolled by conservative political groups — and all of it promoted by Fox News. But focusing only on those elements obscures the fact that some of what’s fueling [...]
Tea Partiers as open source political movement and open source warfare
Excerpts from Global Guerrillas. Lots more in the full post including how the Republican Party will fight back and try to co-opt it and if it could morph into a real insurgency. Read the whole thing.
The Tea Party movement in the US is an open source political protest. It emerged due to a substantial loss [...]
The Masked Political Consultant on Tea Partiers (and progressives)
Joe Bageant asks his Masked Political Consultant about the Tea Partiers, who responds anonymously with three points.
The first is the general political incoherence of their lines of attack and in what they claim to be for and what they claim to be against.
Yeah, it is difficult for Obama to be a Nazi and a Communist [...]
