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Originally Posted by Bri
Interesting representation of the tea party. Are they basically an anarchist movement?
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Used to be. The Tea Party was made up of libertarians and anarcho-capitalists who were all about a small, unintrusive government that meddled in only the aspects of life that it needed to--protecting individual rights, maintaining the military, maintaining the judiciary, things of that nature.
I can respect libertarians, they have a lot of good ideas. I can even respect anarcho-capitalists a bit, even though they live in a hopeless dreamworld. However, the Tea Party's original ideology was thoroughly hijacked and destroyed by a Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin/Michelle Bachmann breed of Faux News zombies who are basically Republicans who are too right-wing for the GOP.
Libertarians and anyone who believes in smaller, less-intrusive government would
never advocate banning gay marriage. Instead, they'd advocate removing all the legal aspects of marriage altogether. Libertarians would never shill for big corporations, because one of the central tenants of libertarianism is that only individuals have rights--organizations do not.
The current Tea Party is not the original Tea Party. Instead, they are a bunch of soulless old losers who can't get over the fact that it's not 1954 anymore.