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Originally posted by EssenSieMich
As the average person on the left is young, ignorant, and less educated
The story of 'my grandfather' is a fictional example to illustrate how easily facts can be spun to create an emotional response in any target audience
...all of the facts can be found right here on ATS and there are countless people ready to help you reach enlightenment.
Originally posted by beezzer
The Tea Party is made of of a variety of folks. There is no central message or voice.
Read my other thread on those views. Simply not true.
Tea Tarty Patriots
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
...
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
Originally posted by beezzer
Maybe I should be the voice for the Tea Party.
I'm sure you don't speak for all liberals. Is Rosie O'Donnell your spokesman?
But when one Tea Party person says something, we are immediatlly painted with that same broad brush.
Originally posted by whatukno
reply to post by beezzer
But you aren't really speaking like a TEA Partier, your ideal of less government basically just describes a minimalist. Not exactly what the TEA Party as a whole stands for.
Not everyone really fits in perfectly with the standards and practices of a political party. Not all Republicans really want to invade every country blowing large holes in everything that isn't American. Conversely, not all Democrats smoke pot and hug trees.
What I listed above, were concepts that Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck have endorsed, who have identified themselves as voices of the TEA Party. So, when these people endorse and propagate these ideals in the name of the TEA Party, as defacto leaders and the public voice of the TEA Party, it becomes the policy of the TEA Party.
Just like when Rush Limbaugh says something, it becomes the policy of the Republican party, or when Carl Rove wants to put Julian Assange, an Australian born person who isn't a citizen of the United States for treason, as a voice of the Republican party, that becomes the overall policy of the GOP.
Originally posted by kimar
The Tea Party is actually quite a minor movement but is propped up by the corporate media to make it look like there is a credible opposition to Obama for ratings (profit) purposes. Nothing like conflict to boost them ratings! The Teabaggers movement is corporately founded and funded for the sole purpose of protecting corporate interests. It's got nothing to do with freedom, nothing to do with rights. It's all about corporations and billionaires creating a movement of legitimately angry people, and then turning that anger away from where it should be directed at (Corporate America), towards essential government programs that help society's most vulnerable. The grassroots level of the movement is so void of intelligence and filled with fear that it's hard to pity them for being played like pawns.edit on 16-1-2011 by kimar because: spelling
Originally posted by kinda kurious
Unlike OP, I will state UPFRONT that the following is a fictionalized account in order to mislead. Despite the ATS mantra of denying ignorance, I'll fight Ignorance with Ignorance.
Perhaps we should consider, more aptly, why "The Right" hates "The Left."
The Left tends to be:
More intelligent
Happier
Lactose tolerant
More spiritual
Better Looking
Healthier and under weight due to Yoga
Lucky enough to get the better job, spouse
Cavity free
Originally posted by LDragonFire
reply to post by beezzer
It's interesting you speak of personal responsibility.
Then why does the right and tea party not take responsibility for its second amendment solutions? Instead they wish to blame the left for everything bad that ever happens....
Originally posted by beezzer
Wrong. We are not funded by anyone.
Chessik said that the well-funded rallies show how the GOP is trying to co-opt what is essentially a grassroots movement.
For Maury Petrehn, the bus tour provides a more secure arrangement. The Tea Party Express hired the veteran hot air balloonist to truck his monumental bird balloon 1,700 miles from his home in Olathe, Kans., to rallies in Reno and Las Vegas. The political organization paid his travel expenses, plus a "several thousand dollar fee," he said.
The progressive left despite being only about 20% at most has aquired almost complete cultural hegemony in education and the media among others - you don't suppose that for all of your life - you have been marinaded in the images, feelings and ideas that they wish you to have!? - no of course not, they have done their job so well that it simply seems self-evident to you!
They have done exactly the same here in the UK - only more so!
Originally posted by aching_knuckles
The progressive left despite being only about 20% at most has aquired almost complete cultural hegemony in education and the media among others - you don't suppose that for all of your life - you have been marinaded in the images, feelings and ideas that they wish you to have!? - no of course not, they have done their job so well that it simply seems self-evident to you!
They have done exactly the same here in the UK - only more so!
Of course, because we are always talking about those lefty commentators like Hannity, Rush, Oreilly, Beck here on ATS. Those leftwingers sure dominate the media on every channel.
This is how their insidious programming works. They make you think that you are part of some minority, and get you riled up over your "loss of freedoms" and your "unheard opinion" when you the one that is shouting the loudest.