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Noam Chomsky 2014 What is the Tea Party

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Noam Chomsky: The Tea Party is the ‘petit bourgeois’ face of corporate oligarchs | The Raw Story

Noam Chomsky: The Tea Party is the ‘petit bourgeois’ face of corporate oligarchs | The Raw Story | real utopias | Scoop.it

“I wouldn’t call them revolutionary,” Chomsky said, dismissing a suggestion that the conservative political faction had anarchist characteristics.

 
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Noam Chomsky: "Tea Party Is Mostly White, Petty Bourgeois"

Noam Chomsky: "Tea Party Is Mostly White, Petty Bourgeois" | real utopias | Scoop.it
'[The tea party's] power and significance doesn't come from their numbers, but by the backing that they have.
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The Democrats Need a Tea Party - Huffington Post

The Democrats Need a Tea Party - Huffington Post | real utopias | Scoop.it

The Tea Party pushes the Republicans to the right. The Democrats need a party to push them to the left. Not the old left of big government and high taxes on the middle class, but a new left of participatory democracy, economic cooperatives, and diversity, not just of race and lifestyle, but of income, class and culture as well. This new party would be based in neighborhoods and workplaces, and steer clear of fat-cat funding.

 
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What's So Crazy About the Tea Party? - CounterPunch

What's So Crazy About the Tea Party? - CounterPunch | real utopias | Scoop.it

Any government in a capitalist society questions how far its political means take it beyond the protection of person and property by means of law. It wants the private economy to subsidize the state, not the other way around. The mainstream ideology in this society is that the economy has defects, but politics is there to act as a corrective. What seems so crazy about the Tea Party is that they reject this role of politics in making up for the market. They don’t regard the lack of access to necessary commodities as a defect; they just say: everyone must compete for their livelihood and if they aren’t successful, that’s there problem. They don’t recognize a national interest in health care because nothing needs to be corrected. They refuse to recognize that capitalism fails to reproduce what it needs to exist.

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Republican Extremists Know Exactly What They're Doing - Huffington Post

Republican Extremists Know Exactly What They're Doing - Huffington Post | real utopias | Scoop.it

They're not crazy or irrational; there's method to their madness, and progressives would do well not to underestimate the rationality of their extremism if we wish to come out winners. To think that there isn't a strategy behind their madcap mission to shut down government and possibly default on the debt would be to severely underestimate their capabilities for very long-term thinking. They're more than willing to pay a short-term, easily overlooked, political price, with the backing of their Wall Street benefactors, and I've seen nothing in the unfolding drama so far to indicate that they're not going to gain from these machinations over the long haul.

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Thanks to the Digital Revolution, a Conservative Uprising Can Rally Its Troops - New York Times

Thanks to the Digital Revolution, a Conservative Uprising Can Rally Its Troops - New York Times | real utopias | Scoop.it

But today, a fervent group of conservatives — bloggers, pundits, activists and even members of Congress — is harnessing the power of the Internet, determined to tell the story of the current budget showdown on its terms.

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