Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things: America's Tea Party Movement (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, September 25, 2010, 11:47 AM
Top conservative blogger and internet icon Glenn Reynolds leads off this wonderful video on the history of America’s Tea Party Movement.
“Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things”
Via KnoxNews:
In April 2009, political rallies were held nationwide in protest of government spending and economic bailouts. Called “Tea Parties,” these rallies spurred a new political phenomenon that has created a stir at the polls and received support by Sarah Palin. Tea Partiers have various reasons for getting involved in politics, but their most common refrain is that the government is not solving the nation’s problems. Critics acknowledge that as a movement, the Tea Party is not tasked with creating solutions like the Republican and Democratic parties. Although the future of the Tea Party movement and its lasting impact on the political system is unclear, it has brought many new people into the political process. Tell us what you think about the Tea Party movement with a video. We’re using YouTube Direct to make it easy for you to post a video reaction about the Tea Party. You can either share a link to a video you have posted to your own YouTube account or upload just upload one. Here’s where you get started: http://www.knoxnews.com/tea-party-react/
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 91 Comments
John Gargano commented:
The Tea party is a new paradigm. People that don’t understand this are functioning according to the old operating system.
The Tea Party is focused upon one thing – PROPER ACTION. No more words, no more eloquent speeches, no more hollow promises, no more rhetoric and manipulative presentations.
The Tea party is a behavior-based paradigm and not a belief-based paradigm. Thus, no longer do we care what politicians say. We don’t care how educated they are or the extent to which they profess to be one of the specially initiated elites. We have had enough of the high-minded who are typically short sighted.
We don’t care about one’s stated beliefs any more because our good nature has been taken advantage of for far too long by those who have poured the sweet sickening syrup of insincerity over their words in order to get us to digest them. We’re finished with that.
We are now behind candidates that promise actions that are in line with our positions about how the government should be run. We know full well that Sarah Palin is not an elite, nor is Christine McDonnell. WE DON”T CARE! We now know that we don’t need people who put forward that they have an advanced understanding of things. In fact, we reject the unnecessary intellectual baggage many politicians employ to manipulate people. For too long, politicians have been telling us how impressed we should be by them instead of just acting in a manner that is impressive.
Our Constitution is a road map. We don’t need high-minded thinkers to re-interpret it. We now need common sense people to simply follow it.
Paul_In_Houston commented:
“Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things”
Right there, you nail what the GOP elites hate so much about the Tea Partiers; riff-raff (“Ordinary People”) presuming to do these things without the sanction of the royalty who consider themselves as the only ones who should be in charge.
If some of those elitist snobs (Rove comes to mind) chose to sabotage a candidate supported by the Tea Party, rather than help such a candidate win over a democrat, sadly it wouldn’t surprise me a bit. It’s called “spite”, and shouldn’t be tolerated in children; let alone in fully grown adults.
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retire05 commented:
One of the things that I really tire of hearing, as expressed by the professor in the video, is that the TEA Party has no answers to the problems they object to.
But isn’t that exactly the point? Don’t we elect representatives to solve the problems for us? Do we not pull the lever, or in the case of some voters, check the box, for the candidate that we think can best go to our state and federal capitols and resolve the problems facing America?
If the TEA Party is expected to resolve those problems, and not elect representatives to do that for us, then we should become a true democracy, not a representative republic.
bigL commented:
On Apr 15 2009, KFI readio hosts John and Ken held a rally in So Calif.It was about local issues but the same topic. spending etc. they expected about 500. and over15,000 showed. All ages, all races.
dirk pitt commented:
The Tea Party want to be represented by a Statesman rather than a Polititian. A Statesman will do the right thing for the people even if it may cost him his job. The Politition will do what ever it takes to keep his power….