Here is an article by Judy Carbone of the University of Missouri that shows (very well, in my opinion) that it's the "big money boys" who control the Tea Party--rather than the Tea Party being some kind of grass-roots, populist movement. These few individuals effectively control the government, and have been trying to convince the public that "government is the problem" (as Ronald Reagan tried to convince the American public). She says, though--contrary to what I have maintained--that the public "gets it"--knows who runs things and calls the shots--while, somehow, the public still thinks that government is the problem because of the effective propaganda of these big-money, Right-Wing voices. And she shows how these people have been trying to render powerless those segments who have been the power base of the Democrats, such as unions.
She names some of these people: The Koch brothers, two extremely wealthy men who have a large network of think tanks; and Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul, who propagandizes via Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, etc.
She also says "The Tea Party has held the country hostage to a manufactured crisis designed to prove their ideological purity." Regular readers of this blog know that I have said the same thing.
To read this important article for yourself, click on the link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/june-carbone/money-men-tea-party_b_915997.html
Copyright (c) 2011 by Richard Stein
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