| HulkWasRight said: I don't want to ruffle any feathers but the fact that this question was asked at all really bothers me. I'm fairly conservative politically and have been involved in things like rallies and volunteerism with the Tea Party. The media paints us as these radical quasi-terrorists just itching to do all this harm. I'ld wager that if you put aside your pre-concieved notions and talked to members of the Tea Party in a non-aggressive way about their politics, you would find ernest kind people who want a more fiscally responsible and moral government. Furthermore violence isn't part of the game plan period. And if you still disagree that's fine, but let's make it about the issues and not indulge in paranoid fantasies of a Right Wing insurgency. |
Are you bothered by the original post, or the discussions that followed? If it comes to the original post, you can blame the sheriff for taking the discussions that way. I had to ask, because that is what the sheriff is implying. What may be a legitimate concern of the collapse of the United State into a civil war was put in the context of Obama getting elected would do it. The question was then, if only RIght Wing folks would fire back.
Now, if you are concerned about the rest of the thread, particularly the Tea Party side, what I speak to you is from my own first-hand experience. I know one person I worked with on the Grass Roots campaign for Ron Paul in 2008, who went off, after listening to a bunch of Glenn Beck (he kept preaching Glenn Beck when I ran into him again, and got a ride to a Tea Party meeting for a Tea Party group he ran and organized), and what I speak about is from him. Maybe not all are like this, but I am particularly troubled when they polled Tea Party folks that Ron Paul only polled like with a 30% approval rating, nationwide. You may have more extreme folks in it, but just like with Occupy, guess how Tea Party gets labelled. It is because of the fringe elements associated with it.
By the way, the guy I talked to, who also had connections to Oath Keepers, and others, is discussing the end of America as we know it. I would say what the sheriff showed is pretty much a strand floating around the GOP, and likely some parts of the Tea Party. But, understand the question originally asked didn't even have intentions of focusing on any particular groups at all, or individuals, outside of the political climate being driven to being very partisan and maybe a civil war could happen. Anything beyond this bothers you, I would suggest you look at those under your banner and talk with them, because some extremes out there are making you look bad.
