What a steaming pant load.
There is no comparison whatsoever, and as someone who has taken part in and met many Tea Partiers, I am offended by the comparison to 60’s radicals.
The vast majority of Tea Party participants are job-holding, tax-paying, patriotic men and women of non-college age who believe in the basic goodness and concept that is America.
We aren’t doing it to keep from going to war.
We aren’t doing it because we are bored.
We aren’t doing for the sex.
We aren’t doing it for the drugs.
Most people I have met involved in the Tea Parties wish they could be home with their families or doing something productive.
I agree. All the actions in which I’ve taken part have been as you describe. Tea partiers have other responsibilities, but take time from them because they’re afraid for their country and their children. It’s not done to avoid service or to be part of something trendy.
Many are doing it to keep from paying taxes.
Well put rlmorel! I was around back in the anti Vietnam war protest era. There was little comparison to today other than a distrust of our government and trying to have a voice in matters that affected those who protested. But, that could be said about any protest movement. So, why compare?
I think the Tea Party movement is larger (for the time span we are in) and is truly grass roots.
Oh, another contrast to the Vietnam war protests...we proudly carry the American flag in our protests, they burned them.