| HappySqurriel said: Your bias is immediately apparent! There isn't a "Good" side who wants to "Move the country into the future" and a "Bad" side who wants to "Move the country into the past" ... What you have is individuals and multiple groups who have very different views on what the problems facing the country are, how to handle them, and what the result of current governmental action will be. Most people who were part of the tea parties are of fairly modest/typical wealth for Americans and believe that building up massive debt is a form of taxation on the young (too young to vote) and unborn
A lot of people are worried about the active involvement the government is taking in the economy with companies like GM and the Big Banks ... They have basically ignored constitutional protections, avoided using existing structures to handle problems within the economy, and have scapegoated their "partners" the second something unpopular happened because of their intervention.
There are countless legitimate concerns that people have, and in the time it took you to right your post you could have read up on people's complaints and realized how horribly uninformed you are.
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I'm sure that a sizeable proportion of those that go to Tea Parties make over $250,000.00 a year and are doing so because they don't want any of their wealth to be redistributed to the poor through higher taxes on those in their income group. I'm equally sure that poorer white people who attend such groups generally have a low level of education and are doing so because they don't like having a black president in the US.
I would be interested to see a demographical breakdown that shows how many African Americans attended Tea Parties versus the number of wealthier (incomes of $250,000.00 a year wage earners) white people attend and / or organize tea parties.
