The Tea Party - how frightening is this movement?

[mhsillen]

Rath said:

HappySqurriel said:

Rath said:

What is the 'real' Tea Party anymore?

Much like the "real" Republicans, or the "real" Democrats, the "real" tea-party are the individuals who make up the party not the people who try to control it ...

In the absence of people injecting talking points and forcing partisan arguments, most of these people would share similar values to other people who are a part of their party; but these values would probably be much different from the values the elite in the party would be pushing.

I just feel like the tea party has become somewhat bogged down in too many competing idealogies - I can't really identify as a whole what it's fighting for now. If it was fighting to change the system into one that wasn't a duopoly I would be supporting it - but instead it just seems to be merging with the GOP.

@Mshillen. Obama isn't radical socialist. For a socialist look at somebody like Chavez. Obama is just a bit more socialist than most US politicians. Also I hardly think Obama can be blamed entirely for the Republicans and Democrats not getting along.

 

My point is people are afraid of this peaceful group and ignoring the fact that Obama is going after his fellow Americans .