Stigma of the Tea Party?

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I am amazed at the degree of polarization on this subject. From what I read, each side is convinced the other is stupid, misguided, or evil. Stand back and look at the strings being pulled behind the scenes. The Republican and Democrat parties are made of millionaires, backed by political donations from corporate sources. From my perspective, corporations are marketing ideas so half the people accuse Democrats, and the other half accuse Republicans. Either way the polarized vote goes, the Corporate millionaires still end up with more control of the government than the average person, because they control both parties. The billionaires play and market both sides of the game and since we bought into one side or the other, we never notice. No wonder they are rich.

I don't think there is any stigma besides a media created one. You'd think the way Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid talk about them that it looked like the like the protests in Greece going on right now.(those are being led by the countries leftists aren't they?) In reality it's just a bunch of old white grandma's in lawn chairs and poster board signs. Scary huh?

I agree tho that there the neocons(who are basically the mainstream of the GOP now) are trying to co-opt the movement.

The Tea Party? Aren't these the same mouth-breathers who whine about "keeping the government's hands off our medicare"?

It is as Ann Coulter said: most women vote democrat because women don't understand politics. Only men should have the vote.

It is as Ann Coulter said: most women vote democrat because women don't understand politics. Only men should have the vote.

Just typical partisan politics as usual. When George Bush was in office, anti-war protesters were dismissed as anti-American and giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy. Now, the Tea Partiers are dismissed as racist, uneducated rednecks who have no real reason to be protesting aside from the fact that a black man is in the white house, which is a ridiculous assumption.

I don't deny that some of the tea party protestors are probably racist, but saying that that's they're prime motivation for protesting is utterly ludicruous. Isn't it a legitimate concern to be worried about how our tax dollars are being spent, or being worried about the deficit? That has nothing to do with racism, and it's an incredibly simplistic notion to think that racism is still so common in our country that it's the prime motivation for nationwide protests.

I do, however, think that Republicans take their rhetoric to a more ridiculous extreme than Democrats usually do, and they also have more media outlets to spread their rhetoric. Republicans are generally more partisan than Democrats, and have opposed Obama's every move with far more intense rhetoric than Democrats did during the Bush administration.