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Silver Shield
10th February 2011, 08:39 PM
http://dont-tread-on.me/a-snake-in-the-grassroots-of-the-tea-party

A Snake in the Grassroots of the Tea Party

By Silver Shield, on February 9th, 2011

I have warned those in the Freedom Movement about Patriot Pied Pipers trying to infiltrate, subvert and destroy the National Tea Party. On a national level, I warned about Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and even Wikileaks. Well now I see they have even burrowed into the local grassroots of the Tea Party. I had a very interesting email exchange with the head of a pretty popular Tea Party site yesterday.

A couple of things hit me during this exchange. The first thing is that this guy was thoroughly indoctrinated exactly like I was 15 years ago. (We will call him “Mr.TeaParty,” since he has a really cool disclaimer for privacy on all of his emails and I am sure he would not want me to out him or his efforts which you will see why below.) He had all of the Reagan worship, the spouting conservative talking points without any real thinking or debate and he ignored all of the facts that did not support his paradigm.

I felt like I was talking to my younger self, because no one could defeat me in a debate. I knew it ALL. I was in the leadership of the second largest college Republicans, I went to CPAC twice, I banged signs against long shore men, I went to Rush Limbaugh’s show three times and even got my two books signed. Like I said, thoroughly indoctrinated.

I believed in the Republican song and dance up until 2005, when for the first time in my life, the Republicans had no more excuses. They had full control of the government and they did nothing to reign in the size or scope of government. They made it worse, they increased the debt, the intrusion of government and even created another trillion dollar Medicare program. It was then when I woke up to see that it is all a big game to fool us. As a result, I knew what this guy was going to say before he said it.

Let’s start at the beginning. I had sent “Mr. TeaParty” my article, Idiot or Evil Genius?, which is about the dichotomy of how people look at both Bush and Obama, as either Idiots or Evil Geniuses. ”Mr. TeaParty” thanked me for the article and said that while I had some good points, I had failed to mention that Obama was spending money four times faster than Bush ever did. I knew at that point, that I had someone stuck in the Elite’s left right matrix.

I responded with…

http://dont-tread-on.me/a-snake-in-the-grassroots-of-the-tea-party

k-os
10th February 2011, 09:04 PM
Great article, as usual. It's so cool the things you are getting involved with.

The Tea Party is an extension of the Republican Party. We could call it the "containment party" of the Republican Party. There might be a small percentage of Tea Party participants who truly believe it can become an actual, viable third party. However, the people pulling the strings know exactly what it is for - to keep the Libertarians that have an "R" next to their name from defecting.

ShortJohnSilver
10th February 2011, 09:59 PM
For me the disappointment started sinking in at about that time as well, I think.

The Repubs had the White House, Senate, and House - yet started to tolerate more and more lefties and did nothing about abortion.

If they had truly meant what they said, they could have easily started tightening the screws on abortion; instead they ran away from the issues and were more concerned about the TV networks being happy with them than voters being happy with them.

Silver Shield
11th February 2011, 01:20 AM
One of the comments on the blog showed how this guy raised $465,000 in donations and pocketed it. He advertises on Drudge all of the time with his "Do you support the Tea Party Yes or No"

What is worse I sent this to a couple of other mainstream Tea Party sites and got no response. I mean this is off season, it's not like they are too busy.

Mike Nystrom from Daily Paul was real helpful.

mrnhtbr2232
11th February 2011, 03:49 AM
"The true believers" seem to have a broken ability to realize the game is all rigged. It's easier for their belief systems to maintain the illusion two sides are somehow different, many times in a melancholy style like Gipper worship. If they realized they were actually bailing the Titanic as a collective to keep it from sinking, rather than part of movements that promise solutions to unsolvable problems, maybe more of them would break from the illusion and influence of partisan ideologies. The largess of corruption is now solidified as a permanent and entrenched obstacle to things much stronger than passive idealism, and the neutering factor to the Tea Party is its good guy identity crisis in a bad guy world.

kregener
11th February 2011, 05:32 AM
The Tea Party sprang out of Ron Paul's followers.

It was subverted by Republicrats as quickly as possible.

messianicdruid
11th February 2011, 11:45 AM
I wonder how Donald Trump's entry will effect things... :conf:

http://www.mofopolitics.com/2011/02/10/donald-trump-cpac-speech-21011/

uncletonoose
11th February 2011, 02:14 PM
I wonder how Donald Trump's entry will effect things... :conf:

http://www.mofopolitics.com/2011/02/10/donald-trump-cpac-speech-21011/


All smoke & mirrors, divide and conquer.

Trinity
11th February 2011, 07:28 PM
Very good work Silver Shield.