For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

This is a nice rewriting of history Basso.

How about we move away from historical fiction?

 

tea party is the worst thing to happen to the US politics in the last thirty years.

 

Polite, indeed.

https://www.google.com/search?q=tea...t9LLAhVDt4MKHY6eATIQ_AUIBygB&biw=1696&bih=806

 

So then...what should we call these people?

Spoiler

Just wondering.

 

The tea party was started by the likes of the koch brothers to oppose Obama, they unleashed something they could not control. They only have themselves to thank for stocking such dark fires. Play with fire , get burned by it.

Good job conservatives.

 

The real manufacturing of the tea party (goes way back before Obama:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement

Background

References to the Boston Tea Party were part of Tax Day protests held in the 1990s and before.[17][18][19][20] In 1984, David H. Koch and Charles G. Koch of Koch Industries founded Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), a conservative political group whose self-described mission was "to fight for less government, lower taxes, and less regulation." Congressman Ron Paul was appointed as the first chairman of the organization. The CSE lobbied for policies favorable to corporations, particularly tobacco companies.[citation needed]
In 2002, a Tea Party movement website was designed and published by the CSE at web address www.usteaparty.com, and stated "our US Tea Party is a national event, hosted continuously online and open to all Americans who feel our taxes are too high and the tax code is too complicated."[74][75] The site did not take off at the time.[76] In 2003, Dick Armey became the chairman of CSE after retiring from Congress.[77] In 2004, Citizens for a Sound Economy split into FreedomWorks, for 501c4 advocacy activity, and the Americans for Prosperity Foundation. Dick Armey stayed as chairman of FreedomWorks, while David Koch stayed as Chairman of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation. The two organizations would become key players in the Tea Party movement from 2009 onward.[78][79] Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks were "probably the leading partners" in the September 2009 Taxpayer March on Washington, also known as the "9/12 Tea Party," according to The Guardian.[80]
Commentaries on origin
Fox News Channel commentator Juan Williams has said that the Tea Party movement emerged from the "ashes" of Ron Paul's 2008 presidential primary campaign.[81] Indeed, Ron Paul has stated that its origin was, on December 16, 2007, when supporters held a 24-hour record breaking, "moneybomb" fundraising event on the Boston Tea Party's 234th anniversary,[82] but that others, including Republicans, took over and changed some of the movement's core beliefs.[83][84] Writing for Slate.com, Dave Weigel has argued in concurrence that, in his view, the "first modern Tea Party events occurred in December 2007, long before Barack Obama took office, and they were organized by supporters of Rep. Ron Paul," with the movement expanding and gaining prominence in 2009.[65] Barack Obama, the first African American President of the United States, took office in January 2009. Journalist Joshua Green has stated in The Atlantic that while Ron Paul is not the Tea Party's founder, or its culturally resonant figure, he has become the "intellectual godfather" of the movement since many now agree with his long-held beliefs.[85]
Journalist Jane Mayer has said that the Koch brothers were essential in funding and strengthening the movement, through groups such as Americans for Prosperity.[79] In 2013, a study published in the journal Tobacco Control concluded that organizations within the movement were connected with non-profit organizations that the tobacco industry and other corporate interests worked with and provided funding for,[74][86] including the group Citizens for a Sound Economy.[87][88] Al Gore cited the study and said that the connections between "market fundamentalists", the tobacco industry and the Tea Party could be traced to a 1971 memo from tobacco lawyer Lewis F. Powell, Jr. who advocated more political power for corporations. Gore said that the Tea Party is an extension of this political strategy "to promote corporate profit at the expense of the public good."[89]
Former governor of Alaska and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, keynoting a Tea Party Tax Day protest at the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin on April 15, 2011, reflected on the origins of the Tea Party movement and credited President Barack Obama, saying "And speaking of President Obama, I think we ought to pay tribute to him today at this Tax Day Tea Party because really he’s the inspiration for why we’re here today. That’s right. The Tea Party Movement wouldn’t exist without Barack Obama."[90][91]
Early local protest events
On January 24, 2009, Trevor Leach, chairman of the Young Americans for Liberty in New York State organized a "Tea Party" to protest obesity taxes proposed by New York Governor David Paterson and call for fiscal responsibility on the part of the government. Several of the protesters wore Native American headdresses similar to the band of 18th century colonists who dumped tea in Boston Harbor to express outrage about British taxes.[92]
Some of the protests were partially in response to several federal laws: the Bush administration's Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008,[93] and the Obama administration's economic stimulus package the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009[94][95] and healthcare reform legislation.[96] The bailouts of banks by the Bush and Obama administrations triggered the Tea Party's rise, according to political analyst Scott Rasmussen. Tea party participants "think federal spending, deficits and taxes are too high, and they think no one in Washington is listening to them, and that latter point is really, really important," Rasmussen said.[97]
New York Times journalist Kate Zernike reported that leaders within the Tea Party credit Seattle blogger and conservative activist Keli Carender with organizing the first Tea Party in February 2009, although the term "Tea Party" was not used.[98] Other articles, written by Chris Good of The Atlantic[99] and NPR's Martin Kaste,[100] credit Carender as "one of the first" Tea Party organizers and state that she "organized some of the earliest Tea Party-style protests".
Carender first organized what she called a "Porkulus Protest" in Seattle on Presidents Day, February 16, the day before President Barack Obama signed the stimulus bill into law.[101] Carender said she did it without support from outside groups or city officials. "I just got fed up and planned it." Carender said 120 people participated. "Which is amazing for the bluest of blue cities I live in, and on only four days notice! This was due to me spending the entire four days calling and emailing every person, think tank, policy center, university professors (that were sympathetic), etc. in town, and not stopping until the day came."[98][102]
Contacted by Carender, Steve Beren promoted the event on his blog four days before the protest[103] and agreed to be a speaker at the rally.[104] Carender also contacted conservative author and Fox News Channel contributor Michelle Malkin, and asked her to publicize the rally on her blog, which Malkin did the day before the event.[105] The following day, the Colorado branch of Americans for Prosperity held a protest at the Colorado Capitol, also promoted by Malkin.[106] Carender held a second protest on February 27, 2009, reporting "We more than doubled our attendance at this one."[98]
First national protests
On February 18, 2009, the one-month old Obama administration announced the Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan, an economic recovery plan to help home owners avoid foreclosure by refinance mortgages in the wake of the Great Recession. The next day, CNBC business news editor Rick Santelli criticized the Plan in a live broadcast from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He said that those plans were "promoting bad behavior" by "subsidizing losers' mortgages". He suggested holding a tea party for traders to gather and dump the derivatives in the Chicago River on July 1. “President Obama, are you listening?” he asked.[107][108][109][110][111] A number of the floor traders around him cheered on his proposal, to the amusement of the hosts in the studio. Santelli's "rant" became a viral video after being featured on the Drudge Report.[112]
According to The New Yorker writer Ben McGrath and New York Times reporter Kate Zernike, this is where the movement was first inspired to coalesce under the collective banner of "Tea Party."[98][107] Santelli's remarks "set the fuse to the modern anti-Obama Tea Party movement," according to journalist Lee Fang.[113] About 10 hours after Santelli's remarks, reTeaParty.com was bought to coordinate Tea Parties scheduled for Independence Day and, as of March 4, was reported to be receiving 11,000 visitors a day.[114] Within hours, the conservative political advocacy group Americans for Prosperity registered the domain name "TaxDayTeaParty.com," and launched a website calling for protests against Obama.[113] Overnight, websites such as "ChicagoTeaParty.com" (registered in August 2008 by Chicagoan Zack Christenson, radio producer for conservative talk show host Milt Rosenberg) were live within 12 hours.[114] By the next day, guests on Fox News had already begun to mention this new "Tea Party."[115] As reported by The Huffington Post, a Facebook page was developed on February 20 calling for Tea Party protests across the country.[116]
A "Nationwide Chicago Tea Party" protest was coordinated across over 40 different cities for February 27, 2009, thus establishing the first national modern Tea Party protest.[117][118] The movement has been supported nationally by at least 12 prominent individuals and their associated organizations.[119] Fox News called many of the protests in 2009 "FNC Tax Day Tea Parties" which it promoted on air and sent speakers to.[120][121] This was to include then-host Glenn Beck, though Fox came to discourage him from attending later events.[122]

 

The Tea Party are a bunch of low educated, low income, racists, who are suffering for whatever reason and do what stupid people do best, they look for someone to blame.

Enter the Fauxnews propaganda machine, who are desperate to hide the real culprits of most of this countries issues, which constantly churns their narrative of "hey we aren't racist (its dead, don't ya know) but the black man in the white house, the mexican people who came across the border, and the low income, mostly black, taker class, are the root of all your problems!"

Unsurprisingly, the result is the emergence of a bigoted reality star, who appeals to this inbred army of low information voters, who does not nothing but churn out zingers and target the scapegoats.

It was an inevitable conclusion, but shockingly the establishment Republicans, and their media shills still can't seem to accept they are the cause of this monster and change their ways.

What I can't figure out is if they know everything they are saying is total horse****, or it has gotten to the point where they actually believe the nonsense they are spouting out non stop. I am sad to say that I don't think this is going to get any better and no positive changes can happen without a catastrophic type trigger event which spurs radical changes in thinking.

 

Nothing like decrying ignorant self-righteousness with an ignorant, self-righteous screed.

What a piece of complete trash that column is. LOL. I love that he can't even allow Brooks to choose his own scripture. Oh no, David's not worthy.

And what an easy piñata David Brooks makes for wingers and leftists alike. Anyone who might display an ounce of humility, uncertainty, or regret will get blasted in today's America. WHERE IS PRESIDENT CAMACHO?! IT IS TIME!!

 

Decent read, but familiar.... The Tea Party was a hype that never reached strong relevancy. A fair parallel could be Anthony Bennett as the #1 pick, ultimately being a bust.

I just don't see what, if anything, related to the TP can be genuinely defended. The Tea Party came out like an explosion with some appeal to the fringes, but everything went cold rather quickly because there was not enough calculated,enduring thinking.

With any group that starts to make "noise," you're going to find some embellishment from the media and what not. However, the entire TP movement reeked of disorganization and, in many instances, chaos from the ideological confusion among its own members. And, of course, the confusion led to division and what some would call extinction.

 

They sound like horrible people.

 

The game is on for conservatives to form a narrative to somehow blame the current freak show that is the Republican nomination race on the democrats.

Good luck with that.

"It's Obamas fault because he's so divisive!" Grow up.
"It's the liberals' fault because they called the Tea Party racist!" Eyeroll.

Look, it's a good thing you conservatives are embarrassed by the republican party. It is. It shows you have some common sense and decency. Now embrace your conservative values of accountability and hold the people on your side accountable for their own stupid bull****. "It's the Left's fault that the republican party will nominate Donald Drumpf as the nominee for President of the United States! Waaahhhh!"

Grow up.

 

Rep: Trump is Obama's fault.
Dem: I thought you don't like Obama?
Rep: No, I don't , that's why I blame Trump on Obama.
Dem: Hmm, maybe I am missing something ... don't you think Trump is good for America? Don't you want to vote for him?
Rep: ;(

 

Alt-right, SJWs.
The moderates are the largest force in US politics and we were left choosing between slimy and yucky.
Both parties need to stop getting hijacked by fringe groups.

 

Wait...what do we call these people then? I guess white fragility is a real thing, don't call a racist a racist.

 

It's cute that the poster who spent years spamming this board with partisan BS only to run away from any actual discussion is lecturing others on divisiveness.

 

You've got your head stuck so far up your ass it's pathetic.

 

doesn't answer my question. What do you call those people basso?