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Oct 22, 2022·edited Oct 22, 2022

You’ve got to be kidding me.

The Tea Party as grass roots? Dick Armey’s tea party? The Koch Bros. Tea Party? The people that followed Glenn Beck ffs?

They were then and now simply a pack of rabid right wing pseudo republican “libertarians” that latched on to the momentum of Ron Paul. And do I ever regret supporting that family of grifters.

Look. From John Birch to Lewis Powell to a never ending consortium of Kochtopus “think tanks” and AEI and the Heritage Founation to Ron Reagan and then the absolute downward trajectory of Lee Atwater to Newt Gingrich to 911 insanity creating a pushback that on the outside has some legitimacy in trying to rein in the overreach of the growing surveillance and already fascist state to the faux rebellion of the astroturf Tea Party Nation et al. taking advantage of real citizens concerns only to move the goal posts once “FEAR OF A BLACK PRESIDENT” drove old racist America absolutely insane.

So there is your tea party. Co-opted at birth. Along came birtherism and the mango menace and voila! Maga fascism ascendent from the ashes of a tottering empire that has ignored its own citizens for decades while actively ginning up wealth inequality that is sold to the dim witted followers as “free market capitalism.”

Their new religion. Capitalism. A concept they don’t even understand. Let alone anything related to taxes or restoring the infrastructure or the manufacturing base is now considered as orthodoxy to be COMMUNISM.

I can’t believe how stupid so many of these suckers really are. They will gladly overpay their masters for the rope to hang themselves all in the name of “owning the libs.”

That’s my rant. I’m sticking to it.

But you want conclusive proof of my assertions?

Go to the source. The Ron Paul “libertarian” font that is Lew Rockwell dot com.

What once heralded freedom and all the usual buzzwords is now shackled at the hip to the glory of the orange fuhrer Donald Trump.

It’s pathetic. They are a walking example of fatal cognitive dissonance. They want free elections — if they win. They want law and order — but not if they are the ones getting caught breaking the law. They see the former guy as a successful bizness man — regardless of his inheritance, ripping off his father ffs and other family members, repeated bankruptcies, never questioning “why would this billionaire need to go on tv to make money to buoy his failing companies?

You seem like a smart lady. Perhaps in your research you became to invested with what people wanted to believe. Rethink and reevaluate the actual corruption inherent in the movement.

Rick Sanchez? Tricorner hats? Really? Old grumps on pensions screaming about government while receiving the checks?

They were pawns. In a media mirage. Wake up.

Btw. When I tried to talk to the OG tea party types back in the day they were simply parrots of talking points. Just like the Maga they turned into when their orange messiah came down an escalator with his plastic imported Barbie to a crowd of paid extras applauding him.

They are all

That.

Authentic.

As in they’re not

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The systematic character assassination of a legitimate grass-roots movement by the mainstream media further eroded its credibility with me at the time. Contrast with the glowing coverage of the "Occupy" movement at roughly the same time.

I think I wasn't the only one that was put off by the naked partisanship of the supposedly impartial mainstream outlets. People whine now about how no one believes their betters nowadays. They need to look in the mirror when they're looking for reasons why.

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