Tea Partiers Move Forward!

This is a very long but GREAT article about the current Tea Party movement. For once, we are pictured as grass roots activists...people who hold jobs and work for a living but are alarmed at the direction this country is taking. Most MSM outlets simply do not get it. They think we are organized by some rich politicians because they cannot understand thousands, MILLIONS of us being motivated to take to the streets with signs, particularly since so many of us are not that type...we are quiet conservative people. Go here to read at...The New Yorker, no less....are they starting to get it? And do we LIKE that?

The Tea Party movement, identified by some commentators as the first right-wing street-protest movement of our time, may be a reflection of how far populist sentiment has drifted away from the political left in the decades since the New Deal. “The original Populists were the ones who came up with the income tax,” Charles Postel, the author of “The Populist Vision,” said recently. “They were for the nationalization of everything. Their idea of a model institution was the Post Office.” Bryan believed that the “right to coin money and issue money is a function of the government,” and railed, most memorably, against the “cross of gold.” Yet few ideas stir the Tea Party faithful more than a fear of creeping nationalization and the dangers—both moral and practical—associated with printing money to suit momentary needs. The sponsors of Glenn Beck’s nightly history lessons on the depredations of American progressivism frequently include purveyors of gold.