“Why doesn’t anyone , I mean anyone, say TEA PARTY anymore?
(Isn’t that where this movement originated?) “
I think there was a massive change in the electorate and that change was broadly referred to as the Tea Party. But I don’t think an actual party existed. I am hard put to name a spokesman who had an office rented under the name Tea Party. I think this was a real grass roots movement. With the movement’s goals of electing somebody they thought could roll back years of liberalism possibly filled, the movement has gone dark. But like shoals in the path of ships, we are still there waiting for another low tide to reveal us again.
Tea Party !
Same with the Minute Men.
(Isn’t that where this movement originated?)
No, It “originated” with people coming to North America hundreds of years ago, but likely “originated” long before that with a fellow named Jesus and before His human time, Abraham.
Truth vs falsehood and dealing with people and situations properly has been around forever, originated with God.
I’ll say it: TEA PARTY.
I’ll say I’m proud to call myself a Tea Partier.
I mostly hear the term when the MSM is sneering at people like us. I’m not so sure that any “official” tea party exists now or ever did, but that is the beauty of the Tea Party. To me, it represented the power of the individual to take back our governement, our rights, and most of all our freedoms. We took a giant leap in that direction on election day.
Yes I think the Tea Party deserves a lot of credit. So does the GOP. So does Donald Trump. Perhaps all in equal measure.
Noteworthy also are changing times, changing media, etc.. Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, FoxNews, Freerepublic, the internet, twitter, etc. Opportunities grew to get around the MSM. Brave, smart people chose to circumvent the MSM.
“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.
One reason people don’t say Tea Party is that the left has successfully substituted the vile perversion “Tea Bagger”.
“Tea- bagging” is slang for a deviant and typically non consensual pseudo sex/rape act having to do with dragging the scrotum across the face of an unwilling participant, who is either held down, or asleep. It may have originated in the gay prison culture.
As disgusting as this term is, the leftist late show hosts like Bill Mahr were quick to adopt it and have gleefully used it almost exclusively as a derogatory substitute for “tea partier” whenever the subject of the Tea Party comes up.
I think that because this pejorative meme caught on in “cool” liberal circles, nobody wants to bring up the subject of Tea Party.
It’s one of those battles that unfurtunaty the “good guys” lost a long time ago - like defending Sarah Palin or Dick Cheney in public - there’s no point.
Oh; were all still here, we are just not what the typical politician would call an organized party.
There were too many lying opportunists out there that claimed to be the head of the TEA PARTY in order to collect money for their own scams.
We are all the same people who donated and voted for PRESIDENT TRUMP.
I don’t think most of us really want to become a specific political party organized along traditional party lines.
I think we are all very aware of the fact that once you organize along those lines, you start to get the creeping corruption that comes with that type of organization.
Two perfect examples are the REPUBLICRATS and the DEMOCANS; both parties started out with what they believed to be noble ideas and laudable goals, neither was able to prevent the inherent corruption that comes with POLITICAL ORGANIZATION.
I think it is better that all of us TEA PARTIERS stay just as a very large group of like minded individuals.
We do our own candidate research and vetting, we may not have the “in your face” ability to solicit funds or procure advertising, but I think in this last election we picked up 100’s of thousands, if not millions more of like minded voters.
I’ll settle for that.