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2010-10-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

Berkely's Ctr. for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements studies the Tea Party

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Posted by trailing wife 2010-10-25 08:12|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Your tax dollars at work. I bet they got a grant from some government agency for this little get together. I wonder which one and how much?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-10-25 12:09|| 2010-10-25 12:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Of course, the reporter won't tell you that.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-10-25 12:10|| 2010-10-25 12:10|| Front Page Top

#3 "people who reverse-engineer Saul Alinsky"

LOL LOL LOL!!!

It's just so easy to ridicule the left these days. As Glenn Reynolds says, they're credentialed, not competent.

From the article: "I wonder if we're likely to see a Timothy McVeigh situation," says Nicholas Robert, an attendee originally from Australia, who basically wonders if any Tea Partiers can be arrested. "It seems to be that we're being very polite. I wonder if there are any legal mechanismsone that comes to mind are the provisions used to crush the Wobblies."

Wow. Please stop calling them liberals.

Posted by Black Charlie Chinemble5313 2010-10-25 12:21|| 2010-10-25 12:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes indeed. They aren't liberals. They are fascists.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-10-25 12:40|| 2010-10-25 12:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Liberal Fascism is the biggest internal threat facing America today.

Posted by Dinah Kanser 2010-10-25 13:05|| 2010-10-25 13:05|| Front Page Top

#6 What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

Posted by mojo 2010-10-25 13:45|| 2010-10-25 13:45|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 Liberal Fascism is the biggest internal threat facing America today.

Andrew C. McCarthy has a recent book entitled: The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America.

A book that links the left to facism, religion (islam), and jihad. Such linkages most likely drive the left nuts.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-10-25 14:17|| 2010-10-25 14:17|| Front Page Top

#8 "most likely drive the left nuts"

That's not a drive, John - that's a two-inch putt.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-10-25 14:36|| 2010-10-25 14:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Children and people in Berkley say the darndest things! I lived there for years, and I have a simple question for these pinheads: do you feel safe walking around the Berkley/Emeryville/Oakland "no man's land" at night?

Didn't think so. Why don't you study THAT problem and stop worrying about whether or not "you" can arrest someone in Peoria for having political views you don't like.

Morons.

Posted by Secret Master 2010-10-25 16:19|| 2010-10-25 16:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Perlstein moves around the question. "The thing that makes America different, and this is a very dialectical, paradoxical concept, is that we have a lot of democracy," he says. "The idea that everyone has an opinion of about what they're hearing is both the glory and the tragedy of American democracy."

Oh you poor little post-modernist mothwhy are so drawn to your paradoxical flame? Perchance there is no tragedy in the concept of individual liberty at all. Maybe the only tragedy is when Progressive eggheads, such as yourself, contemplate replacing a "lot of democracy" with "selective democracy". In fact, that just might be the answer to your whole Tea Party conundrum - eh?

Posted by DepotGuy 2010-10-25 16:37|| 2010-10-25 16:37|| Front Page Top

#11 But America is a Republic with a lot of selective democracy. It's VERY hard to change the constitution and that protects people against the state and thus those who benefit from a rent seeking government.

Obviously sociopaths want the state to do their bidding, so they can use other people.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-10-25 17:57|| 2010-10-25 17:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Why don't they just stick to making paper mache for their Big Giant Puppets? They're good at that.

Posted by tu3031 2010-10-25 22:13|| 2010-10-25 22:13|| Front Page Top

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