The leftwing movement...specifically the Weather Underground...Ol barry's friends estimated that once they took over they'd have to kill 25 million people to solidify power. The Tea Party..as in those that went to rallies and those who hold office never said shit about race or advocating violence. That shit was all leftwing fantasy. the Tea Party is about fiscal responsibility and keeping an inept government away from our friggen pockets.
You say that that the Tea Party is about "fiscal responsibility and keeping an inept government away from our friggen pockets" and perhaps it is...
for you. For some the Tea Party is about social issues and for others it's about dealing with illegal immigration. For some it's about fiscal policies and for others about the war on terror.
But you don't speak for the entire Tea Party movement and your attempt to circumscribe what the Tea Party is and isn't about fails for one simple reason: the Tea Party is a moniker for a disparate group of people holding a wide range of beliefs.
I've heard some people who identify strongly with the Tea Party advocate for violence and I've heard other people who identify strongly with the Tea Party renounce violence in no uncertain terms. Now maybe those who advocate violence are agents provocateurs and maybe they aren't. Maybe those who renounce violence are plants trying to temper the movement and maybe they aren't. The simple fact is that it's hard to pin down any meaningful common set of beliefs that
all Tea Party people share.
That's not to say that people on the left aren't demonizing the Tea Party - they have in the past and perhaps they still do. But how is that different that business as usual -
for both sides of the aisle?
You have people on the right demonizing the ACLU and people on the left demonizing economists. You have people on the left blaming the military-industrial complex
and people on the right blaming hippies and flower-power. You have people on the left seeking to control how people manage their wallet and people on the right seeking to control how people use their genitals.
Perhaps you see a difference in the right and the left. I see none. They're two sides of the same vile and corrupt coin.