re: #426 Cineaste

“With sincerity and respect, we ask that you join us on April 1st, 2009, in sending the Oval Office a Tea Bag, in honor of the party in Boston on December 16, 1773, and in anticipation of its nationwide symbolic re-enactment in the summer of 2009.”

So are they saying the President wasn’t elected by a plurality of the people? I mean the original Tea Party was about not having representation. I wish people would read their history. What kind of a reenactment is it when you don’t even understand the original event.

You misread the purpose of using the phrase. People on the right who are angry talk about revolution as a rhetorical flourish. Many take the idea as just that—rhetoric. But there are some hard core activists who literally think a revolution is necessary.