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Who are the Tea Party?

February 25, 2010 By magic-darts

Who are the Tea Party Crowd? According to an op-ed in today’s LA Times by Boston Democratic Consultant Jim Spencer and New York Political Consultant, Curtis Ellis, the people fueling the Tea Party movement could be the same people who protested Vietnam – and partied at Woodstock. Who’s got a take on this?

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  1. peter-porcupine says

    February 25, 2010 at 11:07 am

    Lots of late 50’s – early 60’s there.  But even more – late 20’s, early 30’s who are VERY upset about the credit card mentality of government.  THEY will be paying off those bonds….

    • magic-darts says

      February 25, 2010 at 11:38 am

      Look up the Tea Party protests and marches on You Tube. It’s amazing how many are children of the 60s. I guess these folk are used to protesting.

  2. mark-bail says

    February 25, 2010 at 2:06 pm

    is glib. The teapartiers have more in common with the other side of the Sixties: the Orthogonians.

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    p>Tea partiers are like the angry suburbanites that Nixon and Reagan appealed to in the 1960s and 1970s. Rick Perlstein, as George “Even a Stopped Clock is Right Twice a Day” Will acknowledges, described them:

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    p>

    Perlstein repeatedly explains Nixon’s or other people’s behavior as arising from an Orthogonian resentment of Franklins, including establishment figures as different as Alger Hiss and Nelson Rockefeller. Nixon “co-opted the liberals’ populism, channeling it into a white middle-class rage at the sophisticates, the well-born, the ‘best circles.'”

    • paulsimmons says

      February 25, 2010 at 3:21 pm

      Considering that the majority of baby-boomers voted for Nixon in 1968 and 1972, were the largest single component within the 1968 Wallace campaign; were the age cohort most supportive of Reagan, and so on…

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      p>Relative to the Sixties “Movement”:

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      p>As the historian John Hope Franklin was fond of saying, the New Left was neither new, nor a Left.

  3. paintitblue says

    February 25, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    This is a good read.

  4. lasthorseman says

    February 25, 2010 at 3:38 pm

    Partly the 911truthers, the subset of this group who knows elite globalists own not only “our” government but also the other governments too.
    The Bilderberg group watchers
    http://www.corbettreport.com/a…
    The Alex Jones crowd.
    Oldthinkernews
    http://www.oldthinkernews.com/
    http://www.oldamericancentury….

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    p>Basically anyone who does not adhere to Obama’s globalized tyranny.
    http://info-wars.org/2009/11/0…

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