The Tea Party is not going away and it is primarily because of the rivers of money that feed into it and the fact that it has its own 24-hour cable network pumping a constant stream of misinformation and outright lies into the American consciousness. How do you combat that?
This has been painted as a grassroots movement but nothing could be farther from the truth. The definition of a grassroots movement is one that starts at the bottom of society, not one that is funded and relentlessly promoted by a handful of obscenely wealthy and powerful individuals who care about nothing except their own stock portfolios.
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Date: 2010-08-30 01:04 am (UTC)This has been painted as a grassroots movement but nothing could be farther from the truth. The definition of a grassroots movement is one that starts at the bottom of society, not one that is funded and relentlessly promoted by a handful of obscenely wealthy and powerful individuals who care about nothing except their own stock portfolios.