“Why doesn’t anyone , I mean anyone, say TEA PARTY anymore?”
Probably a few reasons. I believe that when it was proven that the IRS specifically targeted known Tea Party participants, that specific verbiage dimmed a bit. And the true Tea Party was grass roots and individual — not an organized movement (although some tried to take it over).
We served the big, immediate purpose starting in ‘09. The mindset is still here, but maybe we don’t use the title so much any more.
It’s like a different point in the revolution. That was the moment of standing up and saying we are as mad as hell and we are not going to take this anymore, and the realization of just how many of us there were. It’s been building ever since, and turns out not to be a revolution only against obammunism, but against the whole rotten establishment structure that’s been metastasizing since the 1960s.