Where is the Tea Party of Progressives?

[lib2DaBone]

In the meantime, can anybody answer this question: where is the Tea Party of Progressives? Why are the Nascar morons and Jesus jokers the only people in this country who can mount an aggressive political movement? Will somebody please step up and take the baton?

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http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/09/punked-world.html

[Selatius]

1. The left has always been there. It just does not exist to the corporate-owned news outlets.

What's happening is what I like to call "propaganda by omission." If you present two sides of an argument by showing the far-right view, and then you present the opposite side by intentionally sticking in a center-right view in place of one that should be occupied by a center-left or even a far-left view, you can create the illusion of diversity of viewpoints while simultaneously restricting viewpoints in all practical effect.

While people keep bringing up the notion of a left-wing version of the Tea Party, I tend to use that as an excuse to ask why the corporate news outlets don't report about them at all, and it's because the shareholders over these news outlets are often institutional shareholders in the big banks on Wall Street and over major defense corporations with contracts with the federal government.

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. Sitting here, typing like mad. n/t

[democrank]

3. The Left has always been active politically.

Unlike the Tea Party, the Left is solidly issues-oriented. Media starlets ignore us because we make them uncomfortable by speaking the truth. Why talk about homeless children or black site "prisons" when you can prattle on about Dancing With the Stars?

[Syrinx]

4. the "tea party" is not an organic political movement

It is corporately-created, billionaire-bankrolled astroturf.

The seed was planted by GE's Rick Santelli, and the seedling was nursed like a hothouse bud, by Fox News Channel, with parental support from the Koch brothers.

The Wall Street Occupation may, or may not, be the birth of a new progressive movement. We shall see. But don't expect a lot of help from our corporate masters, or billionaire brothers.

Because we don't have any of those.

[IndyPragmatist]

7. I completely disagree with that

It started as an organic political movement, it just got hijacked by people who only heard "smaller government and lower taxes". The Tea Party was originally a bunch of Libertarian leaning people in their twenties and thirties. Once they started to get attention, some of these rednecks heard them talking about lower taxes and ignored all the other issues. Well, there are a lot more rednecks than educated young libertarians, and they quickly took over the entire Tea Party movement.

Here is a good way to look at it. It started with people who liked Ron Paul and turned into people who like Sarah Palin.

[Motown_Johnny]

5. 1)Reading

2)The morons and jokers can do it because a thoughtless mob mentality is their natural state



3)Obama has taken the baton, the problem is we question his every move while the TPers support everything their people do no matter what



Your questions make little sense. The TPers and ourselves are polar opposites in all things, including our tactics

[blogslut]

6. They're marching on Wall Street

Unfortunately, they don't have corporate sponsors like the tea babies have, so they aren't getting the media attention they deserve.

Occupy Wall Street is entering its 13th day with no sign of letting up.