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Originally Posted by fresnelly
What I took away from the article is the cynical but probably truthful point that the Tea Party movement is doomed.
Not that the Democrats or progressives are going to triumph in any way, but that the establishment system is playing the movement for chumps. It's incredibly depressing when you think about it. He's saying that this movement isn't a pendulous swing to the right, but instead a manufactured slide of the middle class slide into poverty and powerlessness.
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I just read an article in the
Globe and Mail that revealed how American marriages are at an all-time low and that the gap between the rich and the poor is at an all-time high.
This to me seems like a big-picture snapshot of shifting values, both internal and external. The traditional family is eroding. The middle class is eroding. America is changing, and I think this is the kind of environment that creates something like the Tea Party movement.