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2016 Postmortem

In reply to the discussion: A better morning after [View all]

defacto7

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13. Now, my opinion of the Tea Party is a bit different.
Fri Oct 4, 2013, 05:35 PM
Oct 2013

Last edited Sat Oct 5, 2013, 12:00 AM - Edit history (1)

The whole Republican party is not the Tea Party. The Tea Party is a specific group within the GOP that is extreme right and have an ideology of dis-empowering the US Federal government. They are the ones causing all the havoc within the GOP right now holding Boner to their no-ACA position "or he'll lose his job". Now, It is empowered by religious fanaticism on the theme of Dominionism. The Tea Party's political position is similar to the John Birch Society position except the JBS adds divvying up the remnants to the states, and making business interests the new leadership. It's like Libertarian in a way, but very different in the extremes. The JBS has been pushing this ideology for many years and the Koch brothers father was the leader of the JBS in the 1960's. JBS has been determined to get into this position, undercutting the government for a very long time. JBS (and the Tea Party) are extremely anticommunist. Why? because they are fascists.

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