The Like/Hate Thread

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what's the problem with the tea people? there's a lot of angst about them across the internet, but i haven't seen any reason for it.

It seems to be (at the higher level) orchestrated to be a smoke screen for the Republican party to mobilize the harsher, more confrontational elements of the right and a way to grab the pissed off moderates and disenchanted base. I agree with much of their policy issues at face value but I can't take them seriously when they say they want to 'take the country back' as if they only lost it when the democrats came into power and the dismantling of our rights and expansion of the government hasn't been happening for decades (well since the dawn of the republic, but its accelerated in recent times)