Since the far Left does not have any actual good arguements against the notion of reducing the size and expense of government, they have to rely of emotion and deception. And the deception you can expect to see is summed up succinctly at: http://www.crashtheteaparty.org/
WHAT WE WANT: To dismantle and demolish the Tea Party by any non-violent means necessary.
HOW WE WILL SUCCEED: By infiltrating the Tea Party itself! In an effort to propogate their pre-existing propensity for paranoia and suspicion… We have already sat quietly in their meetings, and observed their rallies.
Whenever possible, we will act on behalf of the Tea Party in ways which exaggerate their least appealing qualities (misspelled protest signs, wild claims in TV interviews, etc.) to further distance them from mainstream America and damage the public’s opinion of them.
Now, obviously it takes a world-class moron to discuss a devious scheme of infiltrating an organization on THE WORLD-FRIGGEN’ WIDE WEB. And what kind of moron is this? A teacher, of course.
http://blog.oregonlive.com/mapesonpolitics/2010/04/beaverton_teacher_faces_invest.html
Jason Levin, the Portland man who caused a ruckus over his plans to “infiltrate” Tea Party protests in an aim to discredit them, teaches in a Beaverton middle school and now faces an investigation by the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission.
Melody Hanson, the commission’s director of professional practices, said Wednesday that the agency opened an investigation because “there was enough concern that there was some neglect of duty” on the part of Levin.
Now, there will be actual racists, actual crazy people at Tea Party rallies, and the press will focus on them. Partially they will do so because crazy people are just plain more intereting than regular schmoes… but mostly because the press, as much as they bleat othewise, is ideologically opposed to the basic Tea Party tenets of limited Constitutional government. But now… whenever the press features these jackholes… make sure to point out “Crash the Tea Party.”
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This is one of those notes about human behavior that makes me think all is lost. The offending teacher may actually believe that only those who agree with him will read what he’s written. If that’s true, he is a great example of how Hollywood and the government have conspired to create an entire generation of folk with a limited perspective allied to an unbounded sense of their own “rightness.”
Long ago, when I was talking classes at the local university and getting into disagreements with the professors, I realized that their shouting and deception and misdirection are the inevitable signs that they knew they had no argument against me. Obviously, that’s true outside Ryland Hall.
Of course the “Crash The Tea Party” website could itself be a false flag operation by Tea Party supporters, as it makes anti-Tea Party people look bad.
Unlikely, given the ease with which the guy behind it was “outed.” If you’re going to try to be super-devious, you generally make some effort to cover your tracks. But if you are arrogant enough to actually think that advertising the fact that you are going to infiltrate and disrupt the other side is a good idea… covering your tracks probably isn’t in your skillset.
This is why I have told TEA Party attendees to photograph and video tape EVERY DAMNED THING. And yes. I am one of the people who created this movement last winter. And I have been telling people to RECORD EVRY DAMNED THING from the start. Sweet Bleeding Jeebus!!!!!!!
We have been. Give us SOME credit. After all, when the black Congressmen accused us of being racist bastards, the tea partiers were able to dig up multiple videos of the event proving them wrong within a week. The left? Nothin’. Unfortunately, when the Left does something like that, they put us in the logical position of trying to prove a negative, so it doesn’t help very much because they can always claim we just missed it or just plain ignore any evidence we produce to the contrary.
These liberals, on the other hand, will be much easier to oust and roust, since they will actually be THERE to find, record for evidence, and then escort to the door.
The infiltrators posing as racists and other idiots are operating straight from Saul Alinsky’s playbook. They’re so desperate that they have to play the race card, because concern about unsustainable levels of government encroachment and spending resonate with most Americans. A similar tactic worked for Bill Clinton in ’95, linking conservative Republicans to the whackjobs who blew up the Murrah Federal Building. The Tea Party movement must be proactive and not allow history to repeat itself.
The Tea Party has to be VERY careful at this point because they are so ‘inclusive’ that it’s both easy for them to be infiltrated by both parties and to be ‘linked’ with both parties. The very basic ‘core’ concerns of the Party are directly at odds with the current “core” beliefs of both established parties and their agenda’s but CURRENTLY the Republican’s have the most to gain by linking themselves with the Tea Party against the Democrats. However the history and especially the continued state of ‘denial’ of the main body in control of the Republican party about it’s own issues point to the Tea Party being “dumped” and attacked JUST as badly when the Republican party feels it’s “in-charge” again.
And probably the biggest “danger” at the moment is the inevitable splits that are going to occur as soon as the Tea Party begins to solidify a platform and begins to address how they intend to change from where we are now to where they WANT us to be.
This has been the major downfall point of most of the “reform” parties and movements in the past. The Liberaterian party consistantly failed to explain how they would/could move from the “current” situation to thier “platform” positions without causing major issues in the transition, nor any plans to DEAL with those issue when they DID come up. IMHO they managed to plant the rather LARGE “last-nail” in their coffin by deciding to embrace a far-right ex-Republican whose KNOW political efforts and statements AS a Republican were heavily at odds with their own party platform as a Presidental candidate. They chose “name-value” over political principle and it caused a (another actually) major rift in the party. One they probably won’t be able to recover from.
Similarly in my (and a lot of folks I’m talking to) mind the Tea Party is being aggressivly linked with Sarah Palin who is currently eyed as “the-chosen-one” (to use a certain popular phrase from this blog š ) for the Republican Presidential candidate in 2012. As previously noted this has happened before and I’m not seeing where other than the “white-wash” image of a “reformer” which doesn’t actually match the public record of her service so far in politics her ‘politics’ match those of the core of the Tea Party.
In the end right-or-wrong, impression-or-truth linkages are being established both in the public eye and the media that the Tea Party has GOT to take note of and address. It also has to face the fact that despite the current Democratic “majority” in Congress and control of the Administration the prior control of those same sections of government by the Republican’s did NOT show any tendecy to act differently when they were in control and they have NOT changed largly since that time.
Since the Tea Party is still not wholly “organized” into a viable “alternative” to the current parties it is very vulnerable to being marginalized once its use to any one party has passed. In order for things to change the Tea Party has to (and I truely hope they do from the top-to-the-bottom) understand that in the END the ONLY way they can begin to reform the American government is to infiltrate BOTH parties and fundementally change THEIR structures, platforms, and especially the internal and hiearchial people and structure to more closely match the Tea Party vision.
Unfortunatly that is probably the most unlikely scenerio since neither party is amiable (probably not even capable) of adjusting to meet those standards and the most likely outcome is the Tea Party being pressured to “compromise” THEIR platform and agenda to more closely “meet” one parties or the others.
Realistically there can be only one outcome to that as the Tea Party is not organized or self-sufficent politically to be able to “survive” as an associated entitiy yet. The Tea Party at that point will become just another ‘faction’ within the party given the illusion of being listened too and worked with but no real control.
(Note: Though comprimise is a wonderful thing in politics and it has been missing from Washington DC for far, far too long it can also be VERY easily used as a tool to manipulate if allowed too. Hopefully the Tea Party when it gets organized selects leaders who know this and general members who are on guard against this sort of thing)
In the final anylasis the Tea Party wants reductions and controls on Government that neither of the current parties can ALLOW to happen if they are to survive as they are currently orgainized and operated. Meaning of course that the very LAST thing either want’s to see is an organized and intact Tea Party moving into politics, but is the ONLY way the Tea Party stands a chance of being more than “just” another political reform movement that “moves” a little and then settles and goes away so those in “Washington” from both parties can get back to ‘normal’ work.
I truly hope that “they” realize and understand this and how truly diometrically opposed their beliefs are from the core of either party.
Randy
(Who was just told by IT that I have to finish lunch and reboot my computer “now” or “else” talk at you folks later š )
Want to enact change from the inside? Become a Republican precinct captain. They are the ones who give the R and D nominations to the R and D politicians, and as such they have great influence in who gets to run while it is still possible to actually choose amongst options, as opposed to choosing between evils.
http://www.mdavidjohnson.com/html/precinct_captains__operations_.html
Nice idea… In practice….
Seriously I registered as a Republican during the last election so I could vote for McCain. “I” was informed by a the local Republican party that I wasn’t “eligable” for participation in the “election-process” within the party because I had registered as an “Independent” (around here that’s automatically “Democrat-lite” š ) in the previous elections. They then “promised” to stay in touch with me during the “probationary” period of the next 8+ years. I could “vote” Republican, but I couldn’t BE a Republican until I “proved” myself…
I probably DON’T really need to say this but I’m pretty sure everyone probably understands how straight out ILLEGAL this supposed “policy” is?
This was of course all ‘vocal’ with no paper trail but since I actually voted for Obama, (which meant by the way I had to declare being an “Independent” again during the elections themselves, there went my ‘probation’ I suppose…) I’ve recieve NOTHING from the local or state Republican party at all. (Strangly enough, my wife who never actually registered as anything BUT an Independent has recieved a steady stream of RNC mailers, flyers, and phone calls š )
I am well aware, (as obviously is the machinery of both parties) that change can ONLY come from within and I will probably continue to at least TRY to move changes forward. But I can’t say that I was at all “surprised” by the scene above nor is it limited to just the Republicans though given local circumstance they DO tend to be more blatent about it.
I would have voted for McCain in the general election if I hadn’t witnessed the changes to both him and his campaign after he won the nomination. The McCain “I” voted for in the primaries was NOT the McCain that accepted the party nominaton, nor the man/campaign that ran for President.
I’ve NEVER liked the idea of having to ‘choose’ between ‘evils’ and have always been pretty vocal about wanting the opportunity to vote “none-of-the-above” as an option. But until and unless that or a REAL option appears on the ballots the only other way is to fight the system inertia which currently runs both parties and that requires in many cases compromising and/or deception in order to be ‘accepted’ to a position within the party system. And there is little or no evidence that change is going to come to the parties from the ‘bottom-up’ despite efforts to do so.
It is perhaps to my ‘shame’ but I don’t see myself being capable at this point in my life of “toeing-the-party-line” long enough to reach a position of influance within the current system without compromising MY convictions on issues or speaking my mind. There are actually times I have “wished” that I could but I really DON’T like who’d I’d become after that.
I DO hope the Tea Party movement encourages this idea, but I also hope they know they can’t just focus on a single party without irrevocably ending up being absorbed rather than influancing that party. There’s more than 200 years of history of the parties doing exactly that every single time “change” becomes publically needed.
Inevitably it is going to be up to the “Tea Party” movement itself to decide if they are going to be an actual force of change or just another “popular-reform-movment” which is absorbed, discarged or marginalized once their use in the election process is over.
(Damn that sounds pessimistic as hell… Sorry but talking politics tends to do that to me š )
Randy
Randy, why do you have to declare any party affiliation? I have never done that, and feel no pressure to do so. I’m in Virginia, if that matters.
I do not have any party affiliation either, and since I am fairly libertarian in my outlook I tend to despise BOTH parties. But the Republican party at least has the potential to seriously reform, since they’re the ones with the most to lose if America goes democratic socialist welfare state; the Dems have no such problem.
Becoming a precinct captain is actually fairly easy from the description I read of it. Most districts either do not have anyone at all in the position, or the person competing for the position runs unopposed, so there isn’t much competition. The only thing you need to do to become eligible is to collect some signatures, which you can probably do by getting up in front of whole foods and telling the liberals its for single-payer… okay, that’s probably a bad idea, but you have to admit it’d be fun, and you really don’t need that many signatures. To me it sounds like a great way to enact reform from the inside and the best way to shift the ideological platform of the Republican party closer to Libertarian territory.
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