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Does the Tea Party movement remind you of the movie “Meet John Doe”?

By / 34 Comments / 16 November 2014

Today’s topic for discussion:  what is the Tea Party movement?  Unlike the usual post on the FM website, we have too little data to do anything but speculate. Contents My guess Historical background Origin of the Tea Party Movement Articles about the Tea Parties For more information from the FM site, and an Afterword (1)  My …

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Are the new “tea party” protests a grass roots rebellion or agitprop?

By / 29 Comments / 10 February 2015

Summary:  Are the “tea party” protests a genuine grass roots movement?  Or are they a well-planned and funded agitprop campaign, perhaps designed to weaken the Obama Administration?   Or, as C Smith notes in comment #3, perhaps both!  A provocative article at Playboy provides some evidence that this is serious money at work.  Or not:  see …

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