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declaring the Tea Party a terrorist organization? I'm considering starting one.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)There is no way that Obama will call the Tea Party a terrorist organization. However, if you get 100,000 signatures, President Obama will have to say something at least.
Sassysdad
(65 posts)what?
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Also the (spectacularly failed) American Spring demo to overthrow the government; The murder of two police officers yesterday by white supremacists who draped the bodies with the Tea Party appropriated Gadsden flag; Bundy's open defiance of the BLM with the help of armed supporters. That's just the recent activity.
Sassysdad
(65 posts)...with the TP?
These freaks were Nazi wannabes. Regardless of anyone's views of the TP...this is a bad conflation without evidence of a connection.
tritsofme
(17,323 posts)How do you define "Tea Party"? What do you think this designation would accomplish and what are the consequences? There is a strange and scary authoritarian streak that runs through this place from time to time.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)I don't know what to put in the "find out more" part. I'm
re: scary and authoritarian - you don't think the Tea Party is any way scary and authoritarian? If you're aiming that at me, your way way way off.
tritsofme
(17,323 posts)Like the Bundy people perhaps.
But "Tea Party" is such a generic term it could describe some 30% of voters. If your intention is to declare the latter "terrorist" or whatever, then yes, I would definitely consider that an exercise in authoritarianism.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)anti-government than tea party, if you are attempting to equate the two. It's too easy for the Tea Party to deny a connection. But if you want to advance a narrative that can't really be denied, they basically share the same anti-government language.