Two Tea Parties
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talkpoliticsNow that the Tea Party has taken the plunge to support racism in Arizona, the Party will have the obligatory split over policy. I see a division into two distinct Tea Parties: one of them based on black tea and the other based on green tea. The black Tea Party would continue to support racism (black represents the color of their heart). The green Tea Party will favor a more rational, natural approach to immigration.
What is your opinion of these two parties within the Party? Which other policy divisions can we look forward to?
What is your opinion of these two parties within the Party? Which other policy divisions can we look forward to?
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Date: 16/5/10 23:08 (UTC)The notion of using "blackhearted" to indicate "racist" causes me cognitive dissonance.
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Date: 16/5/10 23:31 (UTC)The majority of people who support this law are not disturbed by white Canadians or Brits who my be hear illegally. (though they will play lip service to equal application of the law.)
No, they are mad that people who look different who have a different culture and language are walking on "their" streets and moving in to "their" neighborhoods. They are angry when they go to a corner store and all of the canned goods say "Goya" and no one speaks English.
They are scared that the white America they grew up with is vanishing forever. Since a good chunk of the people in question are not "legal" they can go after that... but make no mistake if they could find a way they would send as all packing.
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Date: 16/5/10 23:36 (UTC)the majority of the people who support the law
This ain't rocket science here, buddy.
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Date: 16/5/10 23:37 (UTC)The motivations are based in xenophobia.
That's why you also see people passing "English only" laws. This is about defining the national identity not politically but culturally-- and these people think it matters since they think that any other, any non-white culture is inferior--
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Date: 16/5/10 23:37 (UTC)The Tea Party is ruining the Republican party. I'm a moderate Democrat, and there's a Tea Partier running for Senate in the Republican primary in my state, so I get a front row seat the the disaster. I don't even know what to think about the political mess in this country.
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Date: 16/5/10 23:37 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 16/5/10 23:39 (UTC)But this really is a separate issue from resolving the xenophobia-- if it can find an outlet in immigration laws it will move to some other topic.
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Date: 16/5/10 23:46 (UTC)An example.
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Date: 16/5/10 23:47 (UTC)Re: An example.
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