That's ok,,, a lot of interaction, (on OPP) forces the polarization, or maybe it clarifies your/my point,, but what has been made abundantly clear to me over those same years, is that straddling the fence is not working. The corrupt grow in power. I find a lot of common ground with lib stances,, "The rich are getting richer, at our expense" but you cannot deny that the Dems are the party of the rich,,, they have the most (2/3's) of the millionaires in congress/senate,,, you cannot pay one criminal to protect you from another,,,, Blacks,,, got screwed and are being bent over again,, by Dems,, and a Black President!!! WTF??
Republicans, when it was their turn,,, did the same GD thing!!
Check out some normal Tea Party folks in your area,,,, they are a little paranoid (due to NSA et al) but they kind of have a right,, I found they were much more normal than the media portrayal of them... the media lies.
I saw a scandal yesterday about some news anchors who were lying about a anti-homosexual "open letter" THAT THEY MADE UP!!!! The whole thing was phony,, done only for ratings and to ramp up the hatred.
I really think that if normal joes/janes come together and discuss what "Actually" is happening, that the Washington DC crowd is in big trouble, and should be mostly jailed for the stealing and lying they have done purportedly "on our behalf"
jonhatfield wrote:
I was just looking too and couldn't find it. It was the preamble to a rather long further introduction and specific positions and the whole thing was titled tea party platform. The rant on Obama as fraud president somewhat surprised me as being so rabid for an officially adopted document but then the whole right wing etremist phenomenon has surprised me. Before running into the OPP I just had a general impression that the tea party was a populist movement, somewhat ignorant but well intentioned and parallel to the populist movement of the pre-Civil War era that was part of Jacksonianism. That was related to my changing to Dem from GOP in 1984 over what I perceived was the Republican Party with Reagan becoming the present-day Jacksonian anti-federalist radical party and the Dems becoming the present-day conservative federalist party (parallel to the Federalist-Whig-Lincoln GOP political line). I chose Federalist over Jeffersonian-Jacksonian Republican-Democrat in my 1954 junior year high school American history class exercise in political choice as the conservative and GOP choice. Somewhat ironic that politics today is still division over proper extent of federal government action but that the terms conservative and liberal have changed application and the two parties have reversed their historical positions on extent of federal government action.
Apologies for not being ablle to refer you to where I read this supposed TP platform the other day--may have been a state or local TP platform? I would imagine the typical TP person is like the typical Republican and Democrat person fairly moderate compared to the fanatics and the pros. OPP postings on the other hand show the far-out side of the extreme right...to my astonishment at first encounter.
I was just looking too and couldn't find it. It wa... (
show quote)