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TheRealMafoo on 29 October 2010
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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.

If the way US politics worked, was that if you got less then 50% of the vote, you had a runoff election with just the top two candidates, then I would say the Tea Party would serve itself better by forming it's own political entity. Being it does not work that way, all a 3 party system does is put the other guys in office.

For this reason, reforming the Republican party I think is a far smarter move.

As for Obama being a socialist, He is the closest thing we have ever had with the amount of power he has. The only thing that keeps him from really being a socialist, is our form of government does not allow it. If he has full control to do whatever he wanted, I am sure he would be very much in line with Chavez.