Posted on 03/05/2010 9:27:34 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
About 40 years ago, a social movement arose to destroy the establishment. The people we loosely call the New Left wanted to take on The Man, return power to the people, upend the elites and lead a revolution.
Today, another social movement has arisen. The people we loosely call the Tea Partiers also want to destroy the establishment. They also want to take on The Man, return power to the people, upend the elites and lead a revolution.
There are many differences between the New Left and the Tea Partiers. One was on the left, the other is on the right. One was bohemian, the other is bourgeois. One was motivated by war, and the other is motivated by runaway federal spending. One went to Woodstock, the other is more likely to go to Wal-Mart.
But the similarities are more striking than the differences. To start with, the Tea Partiers have adopted the tactics of the New Left. They go in for street theater, mass rallies, marches and extreme statements that are designed to shock polite society out of its stupor. This mimicry is no accident. Dick Armey, one of the spokesmen for the Tea Party movement, recently praised the methods of Saul Alinsky, the leading tactician of the New Left.
These days the same people who are buying Alinsky’s book “Rules for Radicals” on Amazon.com are, according to the company’s software, also buying books like “Liberal Fascism,” “Rules for Conservative Radicals,” “Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left,” and “The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party.” Those last two books were written by David Horowitz, who was a leading New Left polemicist in the 1960s and is now a leading polemicist on the right.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
For this reason, both the New Left and the Tea Party movement are radically anticonservative.
(Maybe I should have added a barf alert?)
The words “David Brooks” are in and of themselves a barf alert
It’s David Brooks, so barf alerts shouldn’t be necessary, everyone knows he’s a arrogant douche.
I wouldn’t even post his carp, why give him the click through hits.
Brooks must have a fresh belly full of 0bama spunk.
The New Left IS the Modern Democrat Party leadership and movers and shakers. The Domestic Terrorists who hold Communist sympathies ARE the Party today.
And they are still trying to destroy the old guard establishment (religious traditions, nuclear male-female family, marketplace, socialism vs personal liberty and accountablity, etc.)
You can't come out of the gate like that and NOT have a whole article JUST on why it IS accurate to call the Democrat policies SOCIALIST, antiAmerican, and RADICAL.
You can't write articles decrying conservatives thumbing through Rules for Radicals without a whole article pointing out how it IS the DNC and MSM playbook.
I loathe the pravda media's selective coverage, revisionist history, and lies by omission.
This guy is a token "Conservative" at the NYTIMES and commentator on PBS NewsHour. Really he is a CINO.
I noted long ago the Tea Party was a generational movement. the 60’s the left, 2000’s the rights.
Oh, please. Typical cr*pola from the NYSlimes.
More like the establishment is trying to destroy the middle class, and the middle class is finally fighting back.
“David Brooks, moderate conservative ... “
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/nyts_david_brooks_and_moderate.html
... and the rest of the usual suspects: Off with their heads!
madame td dufarge
How nice - the NY Times published a list of interesting books.
Brooks commentary continues to deteriorate. I wonder if he has a medical problem?
</half in jest.....>
David Brooks would not be caught dead at a “Tea Party” unless it involved Earl Grey in Wedgwood cups in a townhouse overlooking Central Park West. He’s a precious little poof whose pretense of “conservatism” is belied by a barely-concealed disdain for actual conservatives.
I believe it's called an "anal-cranial impaction".
The anti-war movement of the 1960`s was directly linked to the leftist agenda that was out to destroy America. The same agenda Obama is pushing today.
The Tea Party movement is not out to destroy America. The TPM is pushing the Founders agenda of less taxes, less spending and less government. The same agenda that is found at the core of Reagan conservatism.
The hippie revolution succeeded, Tea party members are counter-revolutionaries trying to restore America’s morals and values.
This is bunk. These conspiracy theories long predate the Tea Party movement and the fact that some individuals who ascribe to such theories call themselves Tea Partiers means nothing.
The Tea Party movement is mainly about smaller government, less corrupt government, and lower deficits. These are the things that virtually all Tea Partiers agree on and care most about. We want the government to stop borrowing money and to leave us alone.
Q. What do Woodstock and Wal Mart have in common?
A. A pathetic lack of adequate bathroom facilities*
(*since Wal Mart’s gone Green, dontcha know...)
So are “New York Times.” David Brooks, Obama’s cabana boy.
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