Joanna wrote:
>
> My overall impression about the TP "movement" is that it is a largely
> top-down manufactured populist movement that is used by the standing
> parties to justify further moves to the right as responses to popular
> pressures.
This reminds me of one passing comment by Chip that I strongly disagree with. He referred to the TP as "out-organizing" leftists, or something like that.
But to call out, with the gughing aid of the mass media, a known sector of the population to join a public celebration of thheir deeply intrenched prefudices, with no need to participate actively in the internal organization of ths 'movement'-- that bears no similarity whatever to the tasks faced by leftists organizers; it isn't even properly designatd by the word "organize."
Carrol