tellmeimaninja said:
Fuck, the Tea Party Movement in the United States got followers by discouraging people from moderation and compromise.
I was reading about the Tea Party Movement the other day, and what I read seems to ring true - our perception of them is largely filtered through media spin. We see lunatics on the news dressed like old-time revolutionaries, waving signs about Obama being a Marxist/Kenyan/Nazi/Supervillain, rambling endlessly about birth certificates and how 'libruls' hate America, want to kill puppies and ban candy. You get nutbar politicians like that O'Donnell woman mumbling nonsense about withcraft. This is what we're shown, and this is what the mind flashes up when we think of the Tea Party.
All of which ignores the fact that most members of the Tea Party Movement are probably ordinary people who want their views represented. The lunatic fringe with the signs and the costumes take all the attention away from people who are presumably far less...well,
fucking insane than those we see on the news. Hell, if I were a Teabagger, I'd be pretty annoyed at being associated with those fuckwits.
It's kinda like saying that all liberals are moss-munching hippies or all conservatives are bible-bashing fundamentalists - it's the ones you don't see who are more important.
