QUOTE(Derktar @ Thu 17th March 2011, 1:00pm)
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Angry? They're clearly unhinged, but political extremism tends to do that to the mind.
True... certainly my own mind is a good example of how bad things can get. But this whole "Tea Party" thing is really getting a lot of people seriously pissed off, now that they're actually starting to try to push through their "legislative agenda," which appears to consist almost entirely of rolling back all the reform legislation of the past two years - what little there's been of that. (Not to mention all the union-busting and local-government-busting going on at the state level.)
There's also been some fairly clear evidence of heavy corporate financing of the 2010 Tea Party candidates, including a great deal of internet-based "astroturfing." It's not just the Koch Brothers, there are all sorts of companies involved, all trying to make it look like the Tea Party is some sort of homegrown "movement," which it clearly isn't and never was.
In a way, I guess you could say that the left wing in the USA has been hoodwinked by things like Wikipedia (and to some extent, NPR) just as the right wing has been hoodwinked by "teabaggers" - all of these organizations are bought and paid for in essentially the same way(s), though the people doing the buying and paying probably aren't the same people. You keep thinking folks are going to "wake up," but it's almost like someone's been adding sleeping pills to the drinking water.