Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Tea Party Movement: Grassroots or AstroTurf?
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As we approach the AP exam, the current movement of the Tea Party should be viewed as that, I think, a movement -- not a political party. But blog your thoughts here. Is the Tea Party a Grassroots movement, populist in nature? Or more of a conservative political action committee's agenda wrapped in the Constitution and some American Revolutionary references. Paul Krugman calls them less a grassroots movement and more of an "astroturf" movement founded by, amongst others, Dick Armey.
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I think it is important for discussion matters on this post for the comment of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich saying that the Tea Party will become a "new militant wing of the Conservative Party" Therefore depleting it's value as a grassroots movement and eventually transforming the Party of "I Don't Know What's Going on with my taxes" with the Party of "No". The only base that the Republican Party has as of now is the Tea Party Movement and their racist tendencies. This will enforce the ideology that not all Republicans are racist but if your racist you're probably a republican.
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