another attempt to slander the tea party people as I am one and know many others who are, I'll like some of money that they say we are given!
So let me get this straight fropfreak... you simultaneously agree with the notion that it's people vs corporations, and that the left and right are functionally equivalent due to corporate influence. Yet somehow, the corporations need to build a shill party to undermine the Democrats, who according to your other articles are also giant friends of corporations.
I see.
Here is how that makes sense in the real world we live in. Bill Clinton was a big friend to American business and got massive corporate campaign funds in exchange for his support. When George W Bush came along in 2000, the corporate community decided that it was time to give up half a loaf with Clinton (who was on both sides of many issues including his pro-business/pro-working people stance.)
With Bush they could get the whole loaf, and Bush delivered. Wages for working people stayed stagnant while the economy boomed for the executive class. Eventually excesses crashed the party during year 8 in the Bush presidency and along comes the party-pooper Obama, who after bailing out the Party Class, got around to some much needed, but unwanted reform. His health care reform was long over due, since insurance companies could insure whomever they wanted and drop whomever they wanted, pay for whatever they wanted and deny whatever they wanted for as long as anyone can remember.
Obama has certainly been a friend to business, and gets a lot of corporate money in exchange, but the Tea Party is something different. They promise to reduce the size of government, code for no more oversight for ANYTHING!
PARTY TIME ALL THE TIME for corporate America.
Corporate support for the Tea Baggers is just common sense, they support those who want to give them a free hand to rape and pillage and who wouldn't want that?
you have never heard of the divide and conquer strategy?
or hedging your bets by putting both parties in your pocket?
C'mon Raz.
No, I boggle at the concept that someone thinks that people have no say regardless of party, then says vote democrat anyway, because their make believe rhetoric bothers me less. Then goes on to point and laugh at folks who don't agree with him who do the same.
Heck, I'll admit i vote with my guns in mind, but that's mostly because it's the only ball in play that's on my list of things I give a crap about. Heck if court cases go right, it might not be in play much longer and then party A and party B might as well be interchangeable from my perspective.
Locally, there might be room for fiscal conservatives to do something, but that's because I'm in NJ. Federally, nobody on either side is going to stop spending like a drunken sailor.
as the article says, even Ron Paul, blasts... both parties as indistinguishable "Republicrats" in his presciently titled book, The Revolution.
I think on the national level, the 2 parties have a few detail differences but they are bought, sold and controlled by the same big money interests. The only time the big 2 even pretend to have the electorates interest in mind is election years. The chart below is from the 2008 election cycle, but it is the same every year.
2011 will be the 20th year I have voted, and I have never voted Dem or Repub in a national election, always 3rd party. I did not vote for Obama, and would not vote for him now, I do think he is doing a damn site better job than his predecessor. On a local level I do tend to vote more left because I have read a history book and do not trust humanity to be humane unless there is a stick forcing it to do the correct thing, and gov. is that stick. I do not see where you get the idea I am telling people to vote for anything? I do very much agree with this articles take on The Tea Party and where it came from, but just because I think the Tea Party is just The Republican Party reworked for this election cycle does not mean I am telling people to vote Dem.
I just love the Title of the Article!! Leave it to Rolling Stone Magazine to come up with that!!
It could have been Hillary Clinton saying Let them eat cake ..as the oligarchs don't give a dang about the peasants average person
When have they ever! Oh, there might have been a few of the "Dollar a Year Men" that weren't just in it for the Glory and Connections they could make and actually felt they were working for the common good, but they were mainly working to protect "Their" way of life and gave a shit about the little guys that got sent to the front to actually fight the war!
Why is it always Harvard, Princeton, Yale grads that get high political positions and Supreme court positions ... regardless of political party affiliation ... the royalty of America
fropfreak
So many good quotes in this story...
"A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can't imagine it... How does a group of billionaire businessmen and corporations get a bunch of broke Middle American white people to lobby for lower taxes for the rich and deregulation of Wall Street? That turns out to be easy... A loose definition of the Tea Party might be millions of pissed-off white people sent chasing after Mexicans on Medicaid by the handful of banks and investment firms who advertise on Fox and CNBC."
"Of course, the fact that we're even sitting here two years after Bush talking about a GOP comeback is a profound testament to two things: One, the American voter's unmatched ability to forget what happened to him 10 seconds ago, and two, the Republican Party's incredible recuperative skill and bureaucratic ingenuity. This is a party that in 2008 was not just beaten but obliterated, with nearly every one of its recognizable leaders reduced to historical-footnote status and pinned with blame for some ghastly political catastrophe. There were literally no healthy bodies left on the bench, but the Republicans managed to get back in the game anyway by plucking an assortment of nativist freaks, village idiots and Internet Hitlers out of thin air and training them into a giant ball of incoherent resentment(Tea Party) just in time for the 2010 midterms. "