[lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye

[Chuck Grimes]

It is not about the election... It is about pulling the Republican Party to 
the Right. The Democrats moving to the right to appear  centrist. And the 
mobilization and `education' of about 20 million people through fear to 
scapegoat Blacks, Muslims, Mexicans, Immigrants, and gay people for the real 
problems faced by our society.

The grassroots wing of the Tea Parties is a social movement. Trying to
analyze it as a political campaign organization is asinine.

-Chip Berlet

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Pretty harsh, and what for? I agree with the scapegoat part, but there is 
more.

Why is getting out the HATE vote a social movement and not a political one? 
Would you like to explain the distinction?

And who is responsible? Just read the NPR article on Arizona's immigration 
bill. Short form, corporate USA.

This should be easy to understand. If the US government is stalled into 
gridlock, the public is fighting itself over populisms of this and that, 
there is no oversight of corporate operations at any level, eo ipso. That's 
the point.

CG