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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
Every movement has a contingent which is worrisome. They represent, perhaps 5% of the movement. They insert themselves to have a platform for their voice, they speak, their ideas are rejected, and they go away. This happened in every movement in our history. It happened in the 60's quite a bit, in what were "left-wing" movements.
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This isn't universally true. At the risk of being accusing of Godwining, Hitler's ideas represented only 2% of his party's ideas, and the party rolled with them before changing their name to the National Socialist German Workers' Party. I'm not suggesting this contingent in the Tea Party movement is a pre-Nazi movement, but I'm illustrating that minority voices throughout history have often come to the mainstream. Hitler's case is the simplest illustration of that.
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Might I point out that not a single act of violence has occurred at a tea party event. Oh, except when the anti-tea party protestors beat up two guys in (I think it was) Ft. Lauderdale. It's just exceedingly difficult to accept this boogeyman fearmongering when, in the 100s of events that have occurred around the nation, not one car has been overturned, window broken, tear gas canister dispensed, etc.
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What about the threat of violence, say, armed revolution? What becomes of that?