Days Of Rage: The Tea Party & America's Right

["Mad" Miles]

Click on title for embedded link to the article. It's long, much will be familiar to anyone paying attention to the news, but the details and names and relationships of the behind the scenes operatives, and their histories, will not.

This is how Fascism is organized.

Everyone needs to know this, no matter your politics, or lack of interest in politics.


Open Democracy: Free Thinking for the World


Days of rage: the Tea Party & America's right

Max Blumenthal, 17 September 2010


The rise of the Tea Party movement in the United States in the first twenty months of Barack Obama’s presidency is shaking the political establishment, an effect reinforced by the victories of its candidates in Republican Party primaries. But where has the movement come from, and what is its inner life? Max Blumenthal, author of “Republican Gomorrah”, enters the heady world of the Tea Party to unravel the mix of driven personalities, feverish rhetoric, toxic hatreds, and flirtation with violence that fuel its sub-culture’s insurgent activism.

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[lifequest]

Enjoyed the article but more so the Open Democracy web site.

[podfish]

these guys seem more threatening than anyone in that article... maybe it should be its own topic, but it's all of a piece, I think.

Koch brothers have been anti-progressive and under the radar for quite a while.