tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post6065225097451482851..comments2024-01-06T17:38:53.551-05:00Comments on Poli-Tea: On the Inevitable Failure of Strategic Infiltration, or, the Degeneration of Tea Party Activists into Petty Party Functionariesd.erishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186054212519025557noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-11680856193443161492010-01-22T18:01:04.544-05:002010-01-22T18:01:04.544-05:00As it so happens, there is an article at Talking P...As it so happens, there is an article at Talking Points Memo on the <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/tea_party_dilemma_to_gop_or_not_to_gop.php?ref=mp" rel="nofollow">split within the tea party movement</a> between reactionary Republicans attempting to hijack it and actual independents who seek a new politics. It reads in part:<br /><br />""I think what we d.erishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09186054212519025557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-54501340083374737012010-01-22T17:47:49.818-05:002010-01-22T17:47:49.818-05:00This is the trap of the lesser-evilist mentality, ...This is the trap of the lesser-evilist mentality, which, ironically, tea party Republicans have fallen into along with progressive Democrats. Making them both the enemy of the greater good. <br /><br />At the same time though, there are numerous tea party and progressive folks who recognize the problem represented by the two-party state and are organizing independent and third party opposition d.erisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-4843941191506563762010-01-22T15:07:48.008-05:002010-01-22T15:07:48.008-05:00You can understand why a tea-partier might think d...You can understand why a tea-partier might think differently. You've seen their reasoning expressed on your own pages. In their embrace of Brown they've revealed themselves as a reactionary rather than revolutionary movement. Their main purpose at this moment, for whatever reason, is to thwart "Obamacare" and alleged "socialism." Reaction inevitably resorts to Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.com