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Tea Party radicalism is misunderstood: Meet the “Newest Right” (You're richer than average, he says)
Salon ^ | October 6, 2013 | Michael Lind

Posted on 10/07/2013 6:24:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: driftless2

Do they talk to skinheads, Klan members, neo-Nazis, militia members, John Birchers, etc.?


41 posted on 10/07/2013 9:26:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: informavoracious

The left has taken hypocrisy, irony and narcissism to unbelievable levels. At some point they have got to collapse from their own utter ridiculousness.


42 posted on 10/07/2013 9:26:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is acting rationally on behalf of his constituency—the surburban and exurban white local notables of Texas and other states, whom the demagogic Senator seems to confuse with “the American people.”

And whom the author seems to confuse with “that rabble”.

At least someone is acting on behalf of his constituency!
Instead of following party orders passed down from on high.


43 posted on 10/07/2013 9:26:32 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SargeK

I won’t even try to resist the temptation. ;-)


44 posted on 10/07/2013 9:30:37 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Graewoulf

Send in the dogs to drive them to the funnels.


45 posted on 10/07/2013 10:13:14 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: sgtyork

Carp is GOOD!


46 posted on 10/07/2013 10:15:18 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Nervous Tick

Carp is GOOD!


47 posted on 10/07/2013 10:16:05 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, in other words, he’s yet another Ivy League snob who is making his money by scribbling nonsense and snot for other wanna-be snobs?

And, quite frankly, anyone who worked for _Harpers_ has pretty much told everyone by doing so that he thinks his poop doesn’t stink. What a tedious bunch of pecksniffs those clowns are.


48 posted on 10/07/2013 11:27:54 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

From what I read (maybe I missed it) he never mentioned anything about the tea party’s belief in running the country by its own rule book (the constitution). Never mentioned creeping socialism, crony capitalism, and gov’t control through regulatory agencies. No mention of the second amendment or using global warming as a political tool to make americans subject to more government regulation and making the poor (especially) even poorer. And yet he claims to understand the tea party.....right.


50 posted on 10/08/2013 2:17:50 AM PDT by BRL
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Funny how the homos tried to claim the TEA party as one of their own. Bathhouse Barry tried to do the same. Is Lind a proud pervert?


51 posted on 10/08/2013 3:42:54 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I don't think they want to talk to average, conservative Americans. They'd find out the truth, and the truth is one thing they're deathly afraid of. It's like the book I read "What's The Matter With Kansas" by New York Times wrtier Thomas Frank. Frank simply couldn't understand why average Kansans weren't raging leftists like himself. Why do these people keep "voting against their economic interests?" in Frank's infamous phrase. Frank simply couldn't understand the conservative mentality. Like all leftists he thinks life is a matter of taking from other people who have more than you do.

Lind appears to be not much diffent. "Why don't you conservatives want to tax the superrich to death?" It never occurs to them is that taking from others what you haven't earned yourself is morally dishonest. Having a select, tiny group of people in Washington determining how everybody else should live is morally dishonest. Until liberals grasp those basic facts, we'll always be at loggerheads.

52 posted on 10/08/2013 4:40:50 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Revolting cat!; GeronL
Moe Tucker, grandmother and former IBM employee/former drummer for the Velvet Underground is "richer than average"?


53 posted on 10/08/2013 8:46:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: a fool in paradise

The media lies every time they report something, they never tell the truth


54 posted on 10/08/2013 8:49:57 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: TigersEye

he left out better than average, cleaner than average, better looking than average and far superior than average


55 posted on 10/08/2013 8:52:01 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: bert

LOL Let there be no doubt!!! ;-)


56 posted on 10/08/2013 1:29:08 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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