At a time when Americans seem more divided than at any point since the Civil War, two grassroots protest movements, the Tea Parties and Occupy Wall Street protests, signal the possibility of a major realignment in American politics along the lines of massive shared opposition to the domineering financial sector and its corrupt counterparts in [...]
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The co-founder of the original Tea Party, Karl Denninger, rips Pajamas Media apart for claiming the financial crisis was caused primarily by an interfering government. Bald lies from the Right (This Is IMPORTANT) Let’s not kid ourselves here folks. There was no “take-over” of Wall Street by Washington. No, both Wall Street and Washington [...] The Humble Libertarian notes that some factions in the Tea Party strongly oppose bailouts for the wealthy and that Think Progress found that Tea Party rally participants in New Hampshire supported same sex marriage. The Tea Party is not a monolith. The original Tea Party, the one founded by Karl Denniger, was and is about [...] Poli-Tea details how some liberals and progressives in the Democratic Party continually go back for more abuse. This is mainly because they are unable to envision alternatives, so they resolutely fight for change within a party that systematically kicks reformists in the teeth every chance it gets. This just happened to the Tea Party [...] Lawrence Lessig, founder of Change Congress and activist for clean government says the anti-corruption goals of the Tea Party are admirable and that the left should work towards the same goals. Traditional liberals will no doubt be driven batty by a prominent progressive activist like Lessig saying this, because they too often view Republicans as [...] Lawrence Lessig, major activist of clean government and founder of Change Congress, on the reformist impulse of the Tea Party and why the left should work towards the same goals. Many of my friends have been puzzled that I have not been a strong critic of the Tea Party. Indeed, quite the opposite, [...] This is from Karl Denninger. He co-founded the Tea Party specifically in opposition to the theft of taxpayer money to bail out failed companies and recently blasted its current incarnation as being about “the usual pablum. Guns, gays, God” and not about the economic crisis. The Tea Party was initiated as a political protest [...] Socialist Unity The democratic ideal of empowering the ordinary citizen cannot be achieved without addressing the problem of corporate power. A centre-ground president like Obama will never engage against powerful vested interests without there being an external pressure to do so from trade unions and progressive civil society. The left needs a Tea Party [...] Major schisms are forming within both major parties, and last night’s election makes this all the more obvious. There will now be open warfare within both parties, as the factions vie for dominance. On the Republican side, Tea Party candidates did well enough that they can no longer be ignored, denigrated, or cynically [...] |  | ||||
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