How is the Tea Party like the Bolsheviks?

Yes, very broad criteria, one uses broad criteria when assessing large political movements. Valid when you assess how various parties rise and fall within political systems plus whether and how they are successful or not. Sorry you didn't like the article - TDB. Maybe political theory is not your thing.

Of course, Obama's alleged "despotism" is not even comparable to Tsarist despotism and the Bolshevik's actions and relation to it isn't comparable to the TP's actions. They do, however, share characteristics in how they relate ideologically to the entrenched system. Their eventual levels of success and fate are not comparable either. So what? That was the point of the article which noted other parallels that more closely align with TP history and so inform us how this whole Tea Party movement might turn out.

Your "Commies" were not actually "real" communists, ala Marx and Engles, either, but more an oligarchy or dictatorship with a veneer of Communist ideology. Marx and Engels hated autocracy and despotism - a view with which we all should be able to agree if not in what should displace that autocracy and despotism. They reviled expansionism as well and especially Tsarist expansionism which they knew well from study. They would have recognized Soviet despotism for what it was (though perhaps not at first) and its expansionism as a potential export which threatened not only the weaker neighbouring nations but the whole world as well.

That is why I would not stop laughing if it weren't for the crying about how hung up on a couple of words like communism and socialism some people are. It cost millions of lives and lots of treasure. We seem to rarely see through the facades of both our friends and enemies to what many of these regimes really are and do to/for their people.



I might disagree, both Clinton and Obama captured the middle, though in different ways, since they had a captive fringe. Clinton worked from the middle out when the Dems were too far left and fractured. Obama started left and triangulated to the middle when talking about elections. Of course they were people and not movements.

So you think they are going to eventually be successful or have they seen the height of their influence and are on the wane? You weren't clear on that, but polling rends would indicate the latter. Originally Posted by LordBeaverbrook

I thought I was perfectly clear ... the moderates disapprove of the tea party ... no moderates, no political success,, past present OR future,

May I remind the jury of the fallacy of the power of the moderates. According to the polls, the moderates are getting smaller and smaller every day. A strong philosophy can carry the day through money, volunteers, and energy brought to the campaign. How did the GOP take control of the House in 1994 and 2010? It wasn't the moderates. It was the Contract with American and the Tea Party. They wrested control of the House and the Senate, in 1994, by getting out and voting.

May I remind the jury of the fallacy of the power of the moderates. According to the polls, the moderates are getting smaller and smaller every day. A strong philosophy can carry the day through money, volunteers, and energy brought to the campaign. How did the GOP take control of the House in 1994 and 2010? It wasn't the moderates. It was the Contract with American and the Tea Party. They wrested control of the House and the Senate, in 1994, by getting out and voting. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn

may I remind the jury JD is a fucking MORON with ZERO credibility?

Originally Posted by CJ7

Here's one for you Tinker Bell

Here's one for you Tinker Bell Originally Posted by TheDaliLama

now Faggots like that JD has seen, AND heard of more often than not .. ain't that right package boy, aka Tinker ?

was that pic from your personal gay parade collection Lamma -boy ?

May I remind the jury of the fallacy of the power of the moderates. According to the polls, the moderates are getting smaller and smaller every day. A strong philosophy can carry the day through money, volunteers, and energy brought to the campaign. How did the GOP take control of the House in 1994 and 2010? It wasn't the moderates. It was the Contract with American and the Tea Party. They wrested control of the House and the Senate, in 1994, by getting out and voting. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn

may I remind the jury JD is a fucking MORON with ZERO credibility? Originally Posted by CJ7

+1 CJ7 - Riddle me this JDB, If the moderates are getting smaller and smaller, then how come the political parties are also getting smaller and self identified independents are getting larger? If moderates are disappearing, then how did the Dems get at least a Million more votes overall for President, Sentate AND House when the Republicans are moving to the right? Get cognitive dissonance much?

I thought I was perfectly clear ... the moderates disapprove of the tea party ... no moderates, no political success,, past present OR future, Originally Posted by CJ7

I don't think the "middle" is real thrilled with the left wing nuts either.

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Assy Fucke is leading the pack... He's the BIG Shit Packing commie

Life would be perfect under communism/statism. Right. Just like Cuba, China and the Soviet Union. Worker's paradise.

The above statement was sarcasm, for those of you Statists who are too stupid to understand.

+1 CJ7 - Riddle me this JDB, If the moderates are getting smaller and smaller, then how come the political parties are also getting smaller and self identified independents are getting larger? If moderates are disappearing, then how did the Dems get at least a Million more votes overall for President, Sentate AND House when the Republicans are moving to the right? Get cognitive dissonance much? Originally Posted by LordBeaverbrook

Ever hear of the term "independents"? They do not identify as moderates but they don't want to belong to either party. Many of them do identify as conservative though they may not vote that way because they are not that driven by their politics.

Ever hear of the term "independents"? They do not identify as moderates but they don't want to belong to either party. Many of them do identify as conservative though they may not vote that way because they are not that driven by their politics. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn

You are wrong all knowing one. Independents are mostly moderates from both parties who are tired of the extreme left and right, and tend to vote for the most qualified candidate rather than party lines.