tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post8168623985683446095..comments2024-03-28T07:08:58.221-04:00Comments on Todd Seavey: Palin, Paul, Brooks, and Tea PartiesTodd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-47381551627103848912010-01-13T02:25:00.000-05:002010-01-13T02:25:00.000-05:00…have the people who make the Tea Parties sound un...<i>…have the people who make the Tea Parties sound unruly not been to any other protests?</i><br><br>Well put. <br><br>As someone who participated in <b>Operation Liberty Rising</b>, where members of Protest Warrior were physically assaulted by vicious hordes of self-proclaimed anarchists on camera, and has actually been attacked at the Marxist equivalent of these rallies, I have to say that the tea parties are probably the most non-violent political events I’ve ever experienced in New York City. <br><br>As for the philosophical content, while not quite up to the snuff of Søren Aabye Kierkegaard or Baruch Spinoza, I have to concede that they were much more ideologically cogent than the archetypal left wing rally I attended with my People’s Cube cohort, whose central theme can be distilled to the phrase “capitalism sux.” <br><br>For what it’s worth, I’ve had personal conversations with the main organizer of the tea party movement here, and he’s very upset that anti-illegal “migrant” organizations like ALIPAC, and my own group, NY ICE, have used the tea party appellation in their own protests and rallies. So that should be further encouragement, unless you-like me-think it’s a bit absurd to claim proprietary rights to a broadly used phrase that’s been in the public domain for centuries.Gerardhttp://indolentmick.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-80519957778654551952010-01-11T17:52:00.000-05:002010-01-11T17:52:00.000-05:00Well, I’ve been to about three Tea Party rallies, ...Well, I’ve been to about three Tea Party rallies, and they were thoroughly focused on spending issues. The closest they came to touching on foreign matters was probably a few statements _supporting_ troops, so the crowds might even skew toward rather than away from foreign entanglements, for good or ill. But that simply wasn’t a central issue, which is all the more reason to be happy about the Tea Parties. Let spending cuts be the unifying issue the way Grover Norquist long made tax cuts the unifying issue (back before we realized the government was crazy enough to cut taxes while continuing to increase spending [Laffer wiggle-room notwithstanding]).Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-65112689865133524102010-01-11T17:45:00.000-05:002010-01-11T17:45:00.000-05:00Ron Paul is an anti-Semite. His association with T...Ron Paul is an anti-Semite. His association with Tea Parties will be anti-Semitic. I’m not looking forward to large clusters of posters at Tea Party rallies complaining about financial support for Israel. They’re probably coming, though.It'sTrue!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-65123494204873162010-01-11T11:42:00.000-05:002010-01-11T11:42:00.000-05:00It’s a group effort.It’s a group effort.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-39991924981157186612010-01-11T11:34:00.000-05:002010-01-11T11:34:00.000-05:00You speak of “making use of” the Tea Party movemen...You speak of “making use of” the Tea Party movement… are you prepared to change that to “subsuming your goals into” theirs?Sammlerhttp://stonecity.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-79395227513724348652010-01-10T21:28:00.000-05:002010-01-10T21:28:00.000-05:00Ron Paul practically wrote the playbook for the Te...Ron Paul practically wrote the playbook for the Tea Parties, which the momentum of his following and his anti-government books such as _The Revolution: A Manifesto_ no doubt helped engender. To reduce him or the Tea Parties to anti-Semitism is insane. You make Chris Matthews sound objective.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-29132715577251089892010-01-10T20:50:00.000-05:002010-01-10T20:50:00.000-05:00The only reason Ron Paul likes the Tea Party folks...The only reason Ron Paul likes the Tea Party folks is that he heard Chris Matthews say that their rallies were full of nothing but white people….and Paul doesn’t consider Jews to be white people.It'sTrue!noreply@blogger.com