Today’s tea party success has frightening consequences for America

[Triana]

Why Today’s Right-Wingers Surpass Wingers of the Past

A terrific essay published this week in the National Journal looks at historical “tugs of war” within both the Republican and Democratic parties, then explains why the current conservative movement’s efforts to yank Republicans right are unprecedented. The author, Norm Ornstein — a journalist, resident political science scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a former guest on Moyers & Company — writes that today’s tea party is meeting with more success than other radical movements of the last hundred years, with frightening consequences for America.

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http://billmoyers.com/2014/07/26/why-todays-right-wingers-surpass-wingers-of-the-past/

[trusty elf]

1. The "Gestopo" lives....

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. a truly horrifying movement (astroturfed....funded by the GOP and not even real -

but don't tell the gullible members)...

[maced666]

3. Debunked - tea party is over.

Endless threads here just after last couple elections showing them dying out faster than they arrived a few years ago. Numbers are going down not up.

[riderinthestorm]

6. $$ in is going up and that's all that matters

These groups have a staggering amount of cash from people like the Koch brothers. They've galvanized the tea party crazed to vote in the primaries which has long been a wasteland of voter apathy.

They've ginned up their "spokespeople" like Palin, Hannity, Limbaugh etc who have iconic status.

They ARE winning. We dismiss this at our peril. I've said it from the beginning - they're tapping into a real visceral vein of America. We've approached them all wrong and until we figure out how to reach them we're in for more Tea Party congressional members.

[Zambero]

8. In their wake, they've pulled the GOP to the right

The Tea Party did not fade away. It was assimilated by what was once the GOP mainstream, which now perceives its radicalism as being the "new conservative mainstream".

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

16. I gotta say, it's been fun to watch. Them teabaggers can go fuck themselves; hope they all rot in hell.

[randys1]

4. These stunningly ignorant and hate filled racists need to feel pain before they will grow up

economic pain

[RKP5637]

11. Agree! ... but if/as they gain power they take the rest of us down with them and

we end up with economic pain too. F'en morons they are, so ignorant, so uneducated, so stupid, so gullible ... the enablers for the monied interests that fuck them over, and they are too stupid to get what is gong on.

[ladjf]

5. The Tea Party's success relates to Education failure. nt

[L0oniX]

10. We want everyone to be stupid ...so we don't feel so alone.

[ladjf]

14. I know that are just kidding. But, you might be correct.

I noted, while I was doing some history research of pre-Civil War plantation life in the American South, that the plantation owners
did everything possible to keep the slaves from getting an education. Their obvious theory was that uneducated people are easier to control.

The Republicans and the very rich in America follow the exact theory that the plantations applied. Short term, their plan will work, in the long term, those who have been subjugated are likely to throw of the "chains" and fight back. It generally gets ugly at that point.

[riderinthestorm]

7. K&R nt

[L0oniX]

9. It scares me to think that they may be driving the car next to me.

[RKP5637]

12. I see them, some wear double flags on their cars, like WTF. I see them as

warning flags, stay clear, moron ahead on wheels.

[L0oniX]

13. Ah ...I am not alone with that. Flags on cars and trucks are warning signs indeed.

[onethatcares]

15. if that was

Occupy there would have been some heads busted and signs broken for sure.