Michele Bachmann: Tea Party is an ‘intellectual movement’ at its core (via Raw Story )
In her remarks to the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told the assembled crowd that the Tea Party and conservative movements will triumph over progressivism because of the right’s unstoppable intellectual…
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Bachmann is correct that the Tea Party is an intellectual movement. It is a combination of classical or Lockean liberalism, neoclassical economics, Austrian economics, neoliberalism, Ayn Rand's Objectivism, and conservative Christianity.
With these roots can it be consistent? Of course not, not that this matters in the case of political movements that are a combination of different interest groups that agree on a more or less common focus.
Define 'movement'. Tea party supporters come across as ignorant of their own self-interest, let alone the vulgar dogma that dominates the leadership.
Movements are often ill-defined. Their uniting slogan is "freedom from government" Seems to me that their focus is on what they are against rather than what they are for. I think that if they would take power they would have some difficulty agreeing on policy.There seem to be lot of contradictions in that coalition. Freedom from government is tricky governing principle when an electorate expects government to get something done.
" ...let alone the vulgar dogma that dominates the leadership."
Leech-ership, more likely?
IT DOES NOT TAKE A ZEN MASTER TO SEE THAT THE TEA IS A BUNCH OF ANTI RATIONAL NIT WIT ... WICCA GOAT SOUP.
Raciscm
I'd also throw in anti-intellectualism (know-nothingism) and that, too, is an intellectual position, ironically enough, that considers anti-intellectualism a virtue. A lot of these people are anti-science, too.
All I see is the word "Liberty" pasted all over the backdrop....
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