This sums up perfectly what virtually no one on the left understands about the Tea Party.
The feuding between business groups and Tea Party Republicans is just beginning.
Trade associations and conservative groups that clashed bitterly over the government shutdown and the debt-ceiling hike will soon be on opposite sides in fights over the U.S. Export-Import Bank, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) and the farm bill, to name just a few
How’s that for some cognitive dissonance? The Tea Party is doing more to fight corporatism than the Democrats.
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5 responses to “What The Tea Party Is”
I originally supported the concept of the TEA Party. Then I began to hear about the anti-gay crap that occasionally went on in some of its chapters (at least one of which is in my area). Over the last couple of years, I’ve been pretty suspicious of the whole outfit.
However, I’ve appreciated the way they’ve been standing up against Obamacare. I’m beginning to think they may stand, after all, for the principles they claim.
I think my local chapter may be worth a second look.
This is very encouraging to me. If the Tea Party cannot gain leadership in the Republican Party, then perhaps elements from both major parties may be able to form an influential coalition (third party?) to work against the big government/big business formation that is killing the true American way.
I think most people on the left understand the Tea Party’s anti-corporatist stance just fine. At least, most of the leftists I’ve talked to.
Progressives aren’t really anti-corporatism, they just want control of the corporations.
Most Tea Party people I know are basically small L Libertarians regarding the Federal Gov’t and Gov’t spending on the State & Local level. They also tend to be more socially conservative than your average Democrat today, but not as socially conservative as your average Republican was a decade ago.
Asking what is the tea party is like asking what is the nazi party before they seized power in 1933!