re: #28 reine.de.tout

Interesting. I recall when folks were saying the same TYPE of thing about tea partiers - but the folks they interviewed were perfectly nice folks - just regular, average folks.

Conceptually, the type of people who wanted to make a statement about their unhappiness with the state of the country, or perhaps the state of their own personal economics, were indeed “just regular, average folks.”

Yet it became evident early on (e.g., KT tracing “Tea Party” as a congregating formalism to the Ron Paul people) that as a social movement “Tea Party” was becoming a tool for the various paleocons and arch-libertarians to spread their ideas to a wider audience.

I for one don’t believe that an “average folk” exists - every person has their uniqueness and everybody has their own agenda, whether highly myopic or perhaps noble.