My core values are inline with the Tea Party, however, it has evolved into something it originally was not, and something I don't really respect.
It's outside of the scope of this post, but if you really want to understand the tea party situation, you really need to understand the difference between a religious-conservative and an intellectual-conservative.
Most liberals won't sense the difference and thus disregard (arguably more logical) libertarians as they can't distinguish them from the vast majority of religious-conservatives. This happens at a very large scale.
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I wrote this on the tea party about a year and a half ago: http://www.geoffgolder.com/node/16
My core values are inline with the Tea Party, however, it has evolved into something it originally was not, and something I don't really respect.
It's outside of the scope of this post, but if you really want to understand the tea party situation, you really need to understand the difference between a religious-conservative and an intellectual-conservative.
Most liberals won't sense the difference and thus disregard (arguably more logical) libertarians as they can't distinguish them from the vast majority of religious-conservatives. This happens at a very large scale.