re: #14 Shiplord Kirel

I have to wonder if people outside the US have any real idea just how crazy, ignorant, and superstitious the Tea Party really is. It really has no analog outside third world countries.
Do any of our non-US lizardoids have some thoughts on the matter?

I explained the driving ideas behind the TP’ers; Ayn Rand’s Objectivism, fundamentalist Christian eschatology, etc. to several of my students; most of them thought I was either joking or exaggerating until they started reading up on independently - they weren’t laughing then. They were horrified. The most common question to me was, “Can’t you ban them?” because that’s what would be done here in the Czech Republic. When I explain that, “No, really that’s not possible” they shake their heads in disbelief and more than a few have suggested we should seriously consider changing that.