The Tea Party, Occupy, and Liberty Movements should find common ground and work together on issues. It’s not the left vs. the right. It’s the state vs. you.
Jul
5
2012
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The Tea Party, Occupy, and Liberty Movements should find common ground and work together on issues. It’s not the left vs. the right. It’s the state vs. you.
Julie, I think Jesse is right. It doesn’t mean individual tea partiers and tea party organizations aren’t liberty minded. But the vast majority of them either weren’t liberty minded in the first place, just anti-Obama for whatever reason (they thought he was a Muslim or a Soviet plant or whatever), OR co-opted by the establishment GOP and its big money allies early on. As a conservative libertarian I would much rather work with non-coopted liberals (such as some elements still to be found in OWS, as well as left-libertarians and the very occasional Progressive) than co-opted conservatives. The kind of people that worship Glenn Beck (a man who called Ron Paul a kook and said that Alex Jones* was a fascist for debating Piers Morgan) or Mark Levin (the man hates guys like Ron Paul and Thomas Woods, supports blowing up innocent children and torture and calls himself a Constitutional scholar) are not allies. Period. End of story.
But I also think that you are right. Ron Paul, did, after all found the Tea Party, after a fashion, and many elements of it are still in his camp. Now, Ron Paul is no longer running, I understand, but the fact that some people are still in his camp bodes very well for the liberty movement.
Anyways, rock on girl! You’re awesome!
*I’m not an Alex Jones apologist, but he’s no fascist!