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Originally Posted by Doove
Well, we can argue all day about what "....it raised it's rather ugly head in the 2008 elections..." and "...I am pretty sure they gained notoriety in the Spring and Summer of 2008, not in the fall and winter" both mean, but i think my interpretation was entirely reasonable.
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Perhaps reasonable, but erroneous. As the person who wrote it, i think i have the handle on what was meant by it?
So moving on and getting back to the real question i wanted to discuss:
Is the Tea Party as it as evolved today, relevant? Will they have impact on elections and policy? Will they become something more nefarious if the manipulation I think is going on, continues to occur? Remember those guys in brown shirts in Italy and Gemany were often laughed at early on.
True evil is insidious and often seems innocuous, but that helps it spread.
I am not calling Tea Baggers Nazi's, I am just pointing out that as this movement evolved from homespun politics and clever and amusing protests into something more rude and ugly (hence the Abbie Huffman allusion) there could be repercussions down the road. They seem basically harmless, but will they remain that way?
We have already seen some violence and chaos at their more recent protests. I think the author I quoted was making an interesting point about the interesting irony that they claim to be about wholesome values, but aren't afraid to use some pretty heinous tactics to get that Norman Rockwell existence.
