[quote=mike92104]I seem to remember the “Tea Parties” as being tax protests, and anti government bailout protests. At some point the liberals decided it was a threat since there were people speaking out against “the one” and began to frame it as a bunch of right wing extremist kooks trying to organize a new political party(even though the protests were just as much against Repubs). The right wingers were just as nervous, and decided they needed to try to take credit for the new “Tea Party” out of fear the the Republican party would be pushed out by the new movement.
Basically a simple tax protest was spun into some huge new movement that the left could attack, and the right tried to take credit for.[/quote]
Agree with the theory that both political parties felt threatened. I’m conspiracy-minded enough to believe that both parties worked together in order to squash the Tea Party movement.
Initially it was all about the bailouts of irresponsible lenders and borrowers. Very simple, very concise, very clear. The beginning:
The following is very tin-foil-hat, but it really seems like an obvious tactic to me. IMHO, the left brought out the healthcare bill to distract the “angry mobs” from the financial bailouts (did nobody else notice the unusual timing?), and the right co-opted the Tea Party movement so they could divert the anger from the bankers to the healthcare bill. It was a coordinated effort to protect the financial elite because it was getting very close to actual pitchfork time, IMHO. Note that the winner of the healthcare fiasco was none other than the insurance companies — part of the FIRE sector. They managed to pull the wool over the sheeple’s eyes yet again.
