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The Tea Party Isn’t a Political Movement, It’s a Religious One
The Daily Beast ^
| July 13, 2014
| Jack Schwartz
Posted on 07/14/2014 2:21:33 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: foreverfree
The Tea Party’s “religion” is to take America back and remove the tyrant. It has nothing to do with worshiping one God over another.
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posted on
07/14/2014 4:47:19 AM PDT
by
DaveA37
To: South40
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posted on
07/14/2014 4:50:30 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
To: DaveA37
The Tea Party’s misguided notion that it can move the nation by voting into office politicians who favor its views of limited government is its weakness.
How many divisions does the Tea Party command? Joe Stalin?
“He who votes determines nothing. He who counts the vote determines all.”
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posted on
07/14/2014 5:08:24 AM PDT
by
urbanpovertylawcenter
(the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Jack Schwartz supervised Newsday's book pages and was a longtime editor at several New York dailies. Well, that explains how he is such a Tea Party expert. Does he have any idea how the Tea Party got started.
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posted on
07/14/2014 5:18:26 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Defining it as a religion would be the first step in excluding anything that could be defined as 'Tea Party' from political discourse in this country, since we have the 'separation of church & state'.
Pretty transparent if not clumsy attempt to avoid having to deal with the whole movement honestly. But thats par for the left.
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07/14/2014 5:39:19 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: School of Rational Thought; Mrs. Don-o
The Progressive movement has long been described for its religious traits, now confused they are using the tried and true playground approach, "no, you are". I was just talking to my wife of how "progressive" has reentered the lexicon as a replacement for the L word. Fascinating to observe how language is manipulated.
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posted on
07/14/2014 5:41:53 AM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
These people...
Jack thinks he's got us pegged but draws multiple erroneous conclusions about us...with sprinkles of insight on top.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Really? A religious one? Why is it that I have some non religious friends who are in the Tea Party?
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posted on
07/14/2014 6:01:31 AM PDT
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Good Article 2D
"This religiosity explains the Tea Party’s political zealotry."
All dictators set up a false religion of sorts to worship a dogma or race or fatherland with the leader as messiah. But it is always a false religion that leads to persecutions of "disbelievers" or "deniers".
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07/14/2014 6:34:51 AM PDT
by
virgil283
(When attacked by clowns go for the juggler)
To: Sherman Logan
You think the 50s was more libertarian? It is just the opposite, libertarian America came out of the 1960/70s.
The 1950s was still a conservative America compared to what followed.
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07/14/2014 8:46:24 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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