The Tea Party movement the biggest Astroturf operation in history

[Little Star]

This thread is for anyone who impressed by the tea party.

Do you have any understanding of just who The Tea Party represents or better yet, who represents them?

Some wonder where is "our" power? If you are talking about where is our power because the Tea Party seems to wield a lot of power, you may not want to pay the price for that power. It is fake power. It does not belong to the people who consider themselves Tea Partiers. It is bought and paid for the political astroturfing PTB. It is sad that so many of them have been duped and are being used as a grassroots front for the greedy SOB's we call The Powers That Be.

The following article is a good primer to understand astroturfing. It's old but still valid and well worth the read. Google around and you will find plenty more. The Tea Party should not be admired for anything except their ability to be used by TPTB:

"The Tea Party movement: deluded and inspired by billionaires"
By:George Monbiot Guardian.co.uk, Monday 25 October 2010

~snip
The movement began when CNBC's Rick Santelli called from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for a bankers' revolt against the undeserving poor. (He proposed that the traders should hold a tea party to dump derivative securities in Lake Michigan to prevent Obama's plan to "subsidise the losers": by which he meant people whose mortgages had fallen into arrears.) On the same day, Americans for Prosperity set up a Tea Party Facebook page and started organising Tea Party events.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/25/tea-party-koch-brothers

I hate that fucking Rick Santelli because he was the broadcasting voice that got this astroturfed movement rolling for TPTB.

[PM Martin]

1. It seems to be that this anti-government services/regulation

movement has been cultivated over many years. This Santelli character was just the PR front to "ignite" the flame.

[Little Star]

2. Yes. He lit the match so to say.

[PM Martin]

3. This was all planned and the a handful of right wing pundits

were enlisted to "ignite" the flame. Of course Santelli is a piece of horse manure. His kind have no idea how the vast majority of the people live.

[Little Star]

4. I am upset to see people here on DU actually...

putting forth that they admire the tea party in some ways.

There is nothing admirable about a bunch of people being used as a front so that TPTB can have cover for their greed.

[Mnemosyne]

5. You actually saw that on DU? Things have changed. n/t

[Little Star]

6. Yep. Tonight.

[Mnemosyne]

8. Just saw that thread, disgusting. a couple years ago someone would

have been crucified here for such a post.

[PM Martin]

7. Who was this?

[JoeyT]

9. I don't know if they're the biggest one.

They're certainly the most well covered and pandered to by the media and politicians.

[_ed_]

10. Cleary

Is the "Tea Party" an actual political party in any state in the country? Can you register as the "tea party" in any state to vote? It's a fucking joke.