Here we go again: the Left’s cargo cult obsession with the Tea Party.

Reading this Salon article on how progressives :rolling eyes: ‘need their own Tea Party‘ would make me feel sad, if only I was a better person.  I admit it: I enjoyed watching the author poke and prod at the silent engine of populism like a Twelfth Century Yorkshire poacher might poke at a parked spaceship.  The fellow knows that the thing is supposed to go zoom. He may have seen it go zoom.  The poacher even has an explanation of how it goes zoom that makes sense to him. But… no zoom.

But I am magnanimous: I will deign to explain.  You cannot ‘make’ a Tea Party; it makes itself. If people were as upset about ‘income inequality’ (as the Left defines it) as the Left thinks that people are, there’d be no need whatsoever for orgs or groups or coalitions or professional agitators to coax a movement into existence. The movement would spring up without them, and develop its own goals and causes.  …Which is really the last thing that the Left wants – look how quickly they turned that pathetic slave’s flattery known as Occupy Wall Street into the usual laundry list of bad policy life choices – so I suppose that there’s actually no point in explaining, after all.

Never mind?

11 thoughts on “Here we go again: the Left’s cargo cult obsession with the Tea Party.”

  1. Heh. Eventually, they’ll get a natural insurgency, it’ll split their party, and it may even be needed to address GOP problems.
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    Until then, it soaks up more of their time and money.
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    Mew
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    1. I wonder if Warren v Clinton might be exactly what you are describing. The leftists bought and paid for the Democrat Party, but they’re not getting the returns they expected these days.

      1. That depends on whether you believe Clinton is actually running, or whether she’s soaking up damage in favor of a (weaker) candidate to be announced later.
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        As Moe has observed, *very* weak bench over there.
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        Mew

        1. The latter option would require me to believe Clinton is capable of, or willing to, take one for the team, and I can’t imagine that happening.

  2. Now, not quite true. That was the whole point of the “Communist Front” organizations the Left used to be so good at putting together……

  3. The Left will never gain a popular movement, because hordes of dependents are to lazy to actually organize. Boredom and desperation are their only movers. Occupy’s fad ripened quickly, and even the Left is not ready for a truly desperate uprising. Roving bands of marauders remain frowned upon in most of society, as their brief forays into race-riots continue revealing.

  4. The problem for the left is Occupy is probably as close as their ever going to get to a Tea Party.

  5. So they’re saying that the “Coffee Party” that was formed as opposition was pretty much a bust?

  6. Reads post. Reads comments. Occupy, check. Coffee party, check.
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    My work here is done. What, I did no work? Well, I’m done here anyways.

  7. It’s tough to ask someone to do something for free that has always been subsidized. Like organize or protest.

  8. The Democrats have their own version of the Tea Party, unfortunately their version (occupy wall-street) has a propensity towards violence that isn’t seen in the Tea Party (cause Occupy Wall-Street’s motivator is hatred, while the Tea Party’s motivator is love of country).

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