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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
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.
What about the threat of violence, say, armed revolution? What becomes of that?
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That is true. However, I have heard people say some ridiculous things at TEA party events, and they are met with crickets or were booed.
I have been to several TEA party events. I have never once heard a call to arms. It is emphasized that the solutions lie at the ballot box.
Could it be that those in the media who fear the power the TEA party now holds target the extremists in their interviews to further their pre-determined point (which is to marginalize the movement as extremist)? Did you READ the 11 page NYT article on the TEA party?!? It was 11 pages of, "These people are going to burn the C@p!t@l to the ground and r@pe the 0b@m@ d@ughters." It was so ridiculously slanted.