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edhopper

(33,205 posts)
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 02:52 PM Sep 2018

The Tea Party was all about voter anger

and according to conventional wisdom of the MSM, that is why the GOP was able to win in 2010.

But now that Dem voters are genuinely angry (not that bullshit, faux anger of the Tea Party) We are told the Dems can't run on anger at what Trump and the GOP are doing to this country.

Double standard with a half pike and a back flip.

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The Tea Party was all about voter anger (Original Post) edhopper Sep 2018 OP
I think the Tea Party was all about racism personally. world wide wally Sep 2018 #1
That too edhopper Sep 2018 #2
Me too happy feet Sep 2018 #4
Of course it is. Separation Sep 2018 #3
Tea Bag Morans! Ernesto Sep 2018 #5
And the "Tea Party" were mad at the wrong people and for the wrong reasons Proud Liberal Dem Sep 2018 #6
The Tea Party was about dumbasses expressing their racism. Patterson Sep 2018 #7
They are now what we call...... Ernesto Sep 2018 #8
The Tea Party is racist to its core. BeckyDem Sep 2018 #9
Right on the money Ed Power 2 the People Sep 2018 #10

edhopper

(33,205 posts)
2. That too
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 03:22 PM
Sep 2018

but angry racism.


But of course we are told the Dems shouldn't run against racism, they have to be "for" something.

Such bull crap.

Separation

(1,975 posts)
3. Of course it is.
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 03:31 PM
Sep 2018

It's also how Trump was elected. Varying reasons, but mostly there was a huge push back against being PC, especially online. He was the anti PC candidate, his election was all but inevitable. Low democrat excitement, a misinformation attack by a foriegn country.

Hindsight is a bitch, especially if we arent honest with how we lost. Yes, the election was close enough to steal. Why was that? Fake Democrats pretending to be swayed by the green party. (Foriegn actors) but there were also issues in the democratic platform. Yes, let's get pissed...lets also not lose sight how it happened, and put forth a message that cant be twisted.

I've been saying that the Democrats need to have a message, not the media. With how grassroot messages take hold and run like wildfire. Why cant the established democratic party get a cohesive message that cant be twisted?

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,355 posts)
6. And the "Tea Party" were mad at the wrong people and for the wrong reasons
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 04:22 PM
Sep 2018

They elected a crop of people all over the country whom made all of the problems (and government) they claimed to be mad about 1000X worse.


BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
9. The Tea Party is racist to its core.
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 05:00 PM
Sep 2018

Willer speculates that one thing connecting these two political earthquakes might be white voters' unconscious racial biases.

In a series of psychological experiments between 2011 and 2015, he showed how hostility toward people with darker skin and perceived racial threats can influence white support for the tea party. He and his colleagues published a draft of a paper on their findings online last week — some of the most direct evidence of the importance of race to the conservative resurgence during Obama's presidency.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/13/how-psychologists-used-these-doctored-obama-photos-to-get-white-people-to-support-conservative-politics/?utm_term=.4dc1dde6ad21

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