I’ve been trying to understand the Tea Party Movement. Sounds like a lot of angry people who want to get the government out of their lives and cut both taxes and the deficit. Nothing wrong with that — although one does wonder where they were in the Bush years. Never mind. I’m sure like all such protest movements the Tea Partiers will get their 10 to 20 percent of the vote. But should the Tea Partiers actually aspire to break out of that range, attract lots of young people and become something more than just entertainment for Fox News, I have a suggestion:
Become the Green Tea Party.
Op-Ed Columnist - A Tea Party With a Difference - NYTimes.com
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Beach Fanatic
So if there is going to be a Green Tea Party, it will have to emerge from a different place — the radical center, a center committed to a radical departure from business as usual.
Radical centrists unite!
Beach Fanatic
Radical centrists unite!
Moderate is the new radical.
SoWal Insider
moderates can demonize everyone!!!
Banned
moderates can demonize everyone!!!
And demons can moderate everyone!!!;-)
SoWal Insider
it's certainly more fashionable........
Banned
Green tea with ginko party.
SoWal Insider
Would they server Haagen-dazs at the rallies?
Beach Fanatic
Moderate is the new radical.
Excellent. G. S. U. All
Beach Fanatic
Moderate is the new radical.
Beach Fanatic
i love when radicals try to portray themselves are moderates. If you just keep saying it maybe it will work. If you have a problem with the Constitution then yes you're a radical.
Beach Fanatic
i love when radicals try to portray themselves are moderates. If you just keep saying it maybe it will work. If you have a problem with the Constitution then yes you're a radical.
I guess the writers of the constitution support radicals then. They included an amendment process for those who have problems with the constitution.
Beach FanaticAuthor
yeah, mostly because this country was founded by a bunch of radicals who revolted against the king!
SoWal Insider
i love when radicals try to portray themselves are moderates. If you just keep saying it maybe it will work. If you have a problem with the Constitution then yes you're a radical.
I have quite a few problems with the Consititution, but I don't consder myself a radical. But I think I understand what you meant. Radicals reject the basic underpinnings of our democracy, which are defined by the Constitution.
I wouldn't consider most liberals to be radicals. They still believe in the baisc tenets - free speech, freedom of religion, property rights, just to name a few. I think the one area where they tend to bump up against the Constitution is with individual rights, they believe individual rights can and should be infringed for the common good. That's probably the biggest difference between conservatives/libertarians and liberals, when you get right down to it. But I wouldn't consder those radical views.
Beach Fanatic
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
-Mark Twain 1898
-Mark Twain 1898
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