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18 Mar 2011, 4:01 pm

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Would you be surprised to learn that the Tea Party isn't actually a good cross section of America? That in fact they're mostly a sock puppet for Evangelical Christian politicians?

The Tea Party likes to pretend that it's a grass roots salt-of-the-earth organization made up of average Americans who are sick of big government and taxes. They want to pretend that they represent black, white and brown, male and female, young and old.

But the facts are otherwise. The Tea Party is actually a stronghold of white Evangelical Christianity.


http://religionvirus.blogspot.com/2011/ ... uppet.html


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18 Mar 2011, 4:08 pm

As conservative Americans frequently recite: "Well, duh"



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18 Mar 2011, 4:28 pm

Don't know what they're trying prove with that poll. Seems like wishful thinking on their part on the conclusions they get from it.

Maybe instead of obsessing about the Tea Party they should focus on their own ideological impurities.



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18 Mar 2011, 4:42 pm

Jacoby wrote:
Don't know what they're trying prove with that poll. Seems like wishful thinking on their part on the conclusions they get from it.

Maybe instead of obsessing about the Tea Party they should focus on their own ideological impurities.


They are just trying to find some other red herring to validate their tea partiers are racist smear.



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18 Mar 2011, 4:44 pm

I never got the impression that the Tea Party was claiming to represent a broad demographic cross section of America. They just seemed to have a very narrow definition of "average American", an "average American" being one who wasn't part of the broad demographic cross section. It's like when Sarah Palin used "real Americans" to refer to people who lived in small towns. As though city dwellers were somehow imposters. The Tea Party doesn't claim to be representative of all Americans. They merely claim to be representative of all the Americans they consider "real", which is a small subset of Americans.



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18 Mar 2011, 4:45 pm

Inuyasha wrote:
Jacoby wrote:
Don't know what they're trying prove with that poll. Seems like wishful thinking on their part on the conclusions they get from it.

Maybe instead of obsessing about the Tea Party they should focus on their own ideological impurities.


They are just trying to find some other red herring to validate their tea partiers are racist smear.


Ding ding! First one to bring up racism


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18 Mar 2011, 5:31 pm

Who cares what they're made up of? The ideas suck.


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18 Mar 2011, 5:32 pm

Just stating the obvious (that most teabaggers are White Evangelicals) doesn't mean that teabaggers are racist, unless White Evangelicals also are racist.

I think that the majority of Ku Klux Klan members are also White Evangelicals.

Also, most members of the Republican Party are White Evangelicals.

So, what's your point?



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18 Mar 2011, 5:55 pm

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Who cares what they're made up of? The ideas suck.


The ideas of holding politicans accountable, believing in Life, Liberty, and the prusuit of happiness, as well wanting less government in our lives a bad thing?

Crack open a book, chiefy.



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18 Mar 2011, 5:57 pm

pandabear wrote:
Just stating the obvious (that most teabaggers are White Evangelicals) doesn't mean that teabaggers are racist, unless White Evangelicals also are racist.

I think that the majority of Ku Klux Klan members are also White Evangelicals.

Also, most members of the Republican Party are White Evangelicals.

So, what's your point?

the point could be that Evangelicals are the most under represented group in the senate.
17% when they make up around 30% of americans
for scale
15% are Presbyterian (church of scotland in america) when they make up 2.1%
Mormons make of about 1.4% but they have 5% of senate
Jewish folk make up about 1.2% (more mormons in america than jews wierd) 12 senators ,America is good for the Jews.
black folks make up around 12.4% of the us but at this time have no rep in the senate.

btw there are no atheists



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18 Mar 2011, 6:00 pm

Blue_Jackets_fan wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
Who cares what they're made up of? The ideas suck.


The ideas of holding politicans accountable, believing in Life, Liberty, and the prusuit of happiness, as well wanting less government in our lives a bad thing?

Crack open a book, chiefy.


I was a part of the movement before it became the Tea Party and contributed to the first money bomb on Guy Fawkes Day. I know exactly what it is and what it is becoming and your flowery rhetoric is just that: rhetoric. It's nothing that these people actually believe in or have actionable goals toward other than inaction.

Holding politicians accountable is a joke. I haven't heard a single Tea Partier call for holding Bush and his administration accountable for their war crimes. Nor have I heard any Tea Partier even care to acknowledge all of the crimes that went on during Reagan's administration.

Rhetoric puts you in the same category as the dumb communist and anarchist punk kids I knew in high school. Nothing actionable, just a lot of wishing and saying "Well, wouldn't it be better if everyone thought like me instead??"


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18 Mar 2011, 6:40 pm

Inuyasha wrote:
Jacoby wrote:
Don't know what they're trying prove with that poll. Seems like wishful thinking on their part on the conclusions they get from it.

Maybe instead of obsessing about the Tea Party they should focus on their own ideological impurities.


They are just trying to find some other red herring to validate their tea partiers are racist smear.


Maybe you dont read so well, but the poll and results were interpreted by a religious/friendly organization.

http://pewforum.org/Politics-and-Electi ... igion.aspx

So your claims are pretty specious sir. The essay at the link I provided didnt do much bending, if at all.


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18 Mar 2011, 7:03 pm

Next breaking news story:

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18 Mar 2011, 7:30 pm

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Would you be surprised to learn that the Tea Party isn't actually a good cross section of America? That in fact they're mostly a sock puppet for Evangelical Christian politicians?

The Tea Party likes to pretend that it's a grass roots salt-of-the-earth organization made up of average Americans who are sick of big government and taxes. They want to pretend that they represent black, white and brown, male and female, young and old.

But the facts are otherwise. The Tea Party is actually a stronghold of white Evangelical Christianity.


http://religionvirus.blogspot.com/2011/ ... uppet.html


So what? The Knights of Columbus is overwhelmingly Caucasian too. So is the NRA.

There is no legal requirement that a political party or movement must much the statistical makeup of the United States.

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18 Mar 2011, 7:37 pm

ruveyn wrote:
Fuzzy wrote:
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Would you be surprised to learn that the Tea Party isn't actually a good cross section of America? That in fact they're mostly a sock puppet for Evangelical Christian politicians?

The Tea Party likes to pretend that it's a grass roots salt-of-the-earth organization made up of average Americans who are sick of big government and taxes. They want to pretend that they represent black, white and brown, male and female, young and old.

But the facts are otherwise. The Tea Party is actually a stronghold of white Evangelical Christianity.


http://religionvirus.blogspot.com/2011/ ... uppet.html


So what? The Knights of Columbus is overwhelmingly Caucasian too. So is the NRA.

There is no legal requirement that a political party or movement must much the statistical makeup of the United States.

ruveyn


I think you're missing the point....


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18 Mar 2011, 7:45 pm

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The Knights of Columbus is overwhelmingly Caucasian too.
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I understand that they are overwhelmingly Catholic, too. Not a lot of Evangelicals in this group.