The Dark Side And The Tea Party Movement

By
May 14, 2010

Politico serves up an unrefined mess of slop from somewhere. But when did the dark side of anything go out of vogue on the Left? From the 1960's on, they've always been about not fearing the darker side of things, because there was no dark, as in demeaning, not color, but simply different. I'm telling you, Leftism today is becoming old-fashioned and even archaic in tone.

Tea partiers also have echoes of a well-known grass-roots movement of the 1950s and ’60s — the John Birch Society. The JBS organized in upper-middle-class neighborhoods and among business groups for anti-Communist and conservative causes.

In tone and substance, tea partiers even sound like the JBS did. When they claim that a moderate American president is a “Communist,” it recalls the old JBS attacks on “Communist” President Dwight Eisenhower.

All hail the Dark Side!

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Comments:
  1. MU789 says:

    Is Politico so hard up for material that they run this lefty’s idea of deep thought. What bong party did he just come from?
    I wish I could short Politico if this is what they consider quality journalism.

  2. Lightwave says:

    The funny part is the Left tries to pass Politico off as on *our* side.
    The reality is Politico is just Huffington Post without the softcore.

  3. Rich Fader says:

    Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies.

  4. anonymous says:

    I have stop reading Politico because I don’t trust them.

  5. zf says:

    Notice how the Tea Partiers are either all either upper-middle-class snobs or unemployed slobs depending on which lefty dirtrag you listen to.

  6. rrpjr says:

    So how many sinister analogies are left? Will they just loop back to the first when they run out?
    We’re John Birchers, just like Barack Obama is “moderate” president who recalls Dwight Eisenhower.
    Do they lack that basic human playback switch in their heads and so can’t hear how stupid they sound? Do they even care? Do they count on most people not knowing about or remembering the John Birch Society? Have they even been to a tea party gathering? Would it matter if they went to one?
    I suppose we should be encouraged by the fact the tea party is really, really on their minds. As in terrifyingly.

  7. I didn’t change my onscreen name for nothin’, y’know. :-)

  8. JayJay says:

    I thought it was supposed to be the tightie righties that were the fear mongers. I grew up in a Goldwater house. Was too young to vote but proudly wore my buttons and still have them. Pretty sure he would be handling the war and illegal alien problems quite differently.
    The lefties have a need to classify and pigeon-hole everything and the Tea Parties are such a diverse group that is impossible but they feel the need to try to stick as much negativity on us as they can. Yes, they think the other sheeple are just that stupid as to believe whatever comes out of their yaps.

  9. Scrapiron says:

    Two clicks and you dump dumps like politico never to be read again. If you really want to get to him complain to every advertiser. They like to sell products and he don’t sell anything but garbage.

  10. larry says:

    You have to admit the older and mostly white hits the mark.

  11. “You have to admit the older and mostly white hits the mark.”
    What we admit is that you – like the other leftards that usually bleat here – are a racist.
    Thanks for playing.

  12. Neo says:

    The guy has an “award winning” book on century old populism .. what would you expect ?
    The fact that he is stuck with the “Birchers” shows where his minds is .. the past.

  13. Rob Crawford says:

    “You have to admit the older and mostly white hits the mark.”
    As a description of the Democrat press corps? Yes.

  14. Nahanni says:

    Mahatma Gandhi said “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”.
    The Obamao regime, their MSM propaganda wing and the rest of it’s leftist tools have almost out of the ridicule phase and will soon pass into the fighting phase. The only way they can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat is to fight dirty, and that is something they specialize in. It will be a long, hot summer and don’t be a bit surprised to see the Obamao regime, their MSM propaganda wing and the rest of it’s leftist tools try to stage their own version of the Reichstag fire.