What's making for weak Tea? In this case, the formula seems to contain plenty of uprising, but few core beliefs. The only demand placed on Tea Party candidates is that they be rabidly mad at Democrats, for any number of mostly make-believe reasons. That may be enough to win an election cycle, but as it turns out, it's not enough to sustain a movement. This party's over. (emphasis added).Seriously?
Look . . . I'm a Sumner fan and I don't like the Tea Party . . . but how is this also not an indictment of the Occupy movement as well? Don't get me wrong, I think that the Tea Party is as doomed as a political movement as Sumner thinks it is but . . . well, doesn't the same thing apply to Occupy?
This is the reason I and so many other people have been saying that Occupy needs to rally around/behind at least one or two political causes: because without having something to fight for, any movement eventually just becomes noise.
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