Conspiracies and the Tea Parties

[mystieus]

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In order to respond, alas, we have to understand, and that means going through the looking glass.

So wrote Richard Kim of the tea party movement's latest bogeyman--the Cloward-Piven strategy, which demagogues like Glenn Beck proclaim is the strategy for destroying America and putting in place totalitarian socialism. It sounds ridiculous, Richard notes, and that's precisely why it has such power.

He joins us in studio to explain where this grand conspiracy theory came from, and how it plays into larger threads within the rise of the organized, angry right under the Obama administration.

[Grassy Knoll]

1. " There afraid of the cans, stay away from the cans "

[davidhilton]

2. Didn't those two lose in 08?

[Hatalles]

3. I don't know what you're talking about, my friends.

This is just like a flashback from '08, my friends. It's hilarious, my friends.