[lbo-talk] Demographic composition of the Tea Party

brad bauerly bbauerly at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 12:31:56 PDT 2010



>You could see that coming. Do you not remember writing things like this:


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>>So, the underlining assumptions are that the tea-parties are
>>monolithic, ignorant, have completely different grievances then
>>'real people', and...should be what...sent to the gulags??? If there
>>is going to be a rise of fascism out of this it will only be because
>>the left is too elite and self-righteous to reach out and convince
>>people with very real problems that this is not the way forward. Have fun.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes I do. Where in this do I say that we should reach out to people in the TP? Read it slowly. I don't see it.

People are acting like TPers are born with some sort of genetic predisposition. I said that we need to talk to people with real problems: meaning before they swallow the TP nonsense.



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