re: #87 Killgore Trout

Close, but you’re a little bit off on this part…

The infrastructure for the Tea Parties was already in place. Paulians and Truthers have been having Tea Parties for years. When normal conservatives discovered the idea they inadvertently ended up joining a Paulian movement. That’s why so many of the local and national Tea Party organizers and bloggers are Paulians. They were already in place by the time normal conservatives joined.

Quite unfortunate.

A little “due diligence” was in order.

This reminds me exactly of what happened first with the anti-nuke movement of the late ’50s, and then the with anti-Vietnam War movement of the mid- (repeat: mid-) ’60s. Both started out as legitimate and respectable political opinions — and then the extremists came in and led the movement astray, discrediting all the normal people who stayed on in the process.

(What happened of course is that many if not most of the normal people bailed out once they realized the communists were leading their parade. And that’s what happening now in reverse: People are bailing out of the Tea Party movement now that they’re realizing that too many crazies are in their midst. It seems to late to do a big “purge” of the crazies — there are too many of them involved now.)