[quote]Sloth wrote:
From what I can tell, the tea parties are definitely outside of, and greater than, the GoP. There may be a good many GoPers supporting it (since it nicely coincides against Obama’s agenda). However, just from my reading, and catching footage on the news, it isn’t about the GoP at all. In fact, I’ve seen both parties catching hell from attendees. Many of the folks seem to be Libertarian and disgruntled Conservatives (the Ron Paul/Const. Party variety). Hardly GoP operatives or cheerleaders.
Seems to me the movement isn’t about the GoP. It’s about an underlying philosophy of governance. These are small government folks, angry they’ve been cheated out of the inheritance our founders left us.
The nanny state, the debt/deficit, talks of nationalization, patriot act, tax burdens, the cost of our foreign policy, etc… They have real grievances against the central government. This of course doesn’t sit well with socialists and welfare state lickspittles, so they attempt to reduce these gatherings of freedom minded citizens to nothing more than a GoP rally.[/quote]
This is the only really good legitamate reply to the OP topic and not one response to it, instead the two party warriors are going back and forth about shit they can’t control, and no one in power really cares about. Instead they could stop areguing against eachother and look at what the fuck real people are DOING about big government. But alas, most people would rather talk and complain or cheer than get out and do work to actually effect change.
The Tea Party has nothing to do with GOP, in fact it is just as much against the modern GOP as it is against the Democrats. It is entirely a libertarian/small government/campaign for liberty/info warriors etc… movement. All of these small groups are starting to band together sure there are differences, some think the govenment did 9-11, others think they know who did but are covering it up, and still others don’t believe the government did anything other than drop the ball. Some people like some social programs, others want a harder society with less safety nets and handouts. The bottom line is that more and more people are listening and participating in a movement in some way, that is sending a message to The people running this here ship, WE DON"T WANT BIG GOVERNMENT TELLING US HOW TO LIVE OUR LIVES AND SPENDING OUR MONEY TO FIT THIER INTERESTS. It’s the same message the colonies sent to the royal family during the origional tea party. For people to not make the connection is stupid, and for people to be ridiculed for doing something so patriotic that we are tought these men WERE AMERICA these are the people who built our contry with thier blood sweat and tears and now if we act like them we are crazy? Fuck these people and you idiots who can’t see through thier web. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
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