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Classic.  Picture is of marquee for Tea Party rally to vote Obama out in 2016.



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Bill Maher: Why Do ‘Tea Party People’ Vote Against Their Own Interests? | Americans Against the Tea Party

Bill Maher: Why Do ‘Tea Party People’ Vote Against Their Own Interests? | Americans Against the Tea Party:



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Identity, not ideology, is moving the world - The Washington Post

Identity, not ideology, is moving the world - The Washington Post:

It is a strange mixture of insecurity and assertiveness. People worry that their society is changing beyond recognition and that they are being ruled by vast, distant forces — the European Union in Brussels, the International Monetary Fund or the federal government in Washington — that are beyond their control. And by people who do not share their values.
In the United States, we do see one parallel: the rise of the tea party. Scholars Vanessa Williamson and Theda Skocpol concluded thatimmigration is a central issue — perhaps the central issue — for tea party members, something that has been reinforced by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s loss in his primary election in Virginia. I don’t recognize my country anymore, say Mike Huckabee, Glenn Beck and many others on the right. The same line could be repeated by every one of those European nationalists who won in the polls in May.
In an age of globalization, elites have discussions about political ideology — more government, less government — but, as Samuel Huntington noted many years ago, the bottom-up force that seems to be moving the world these days is political identity. The questions that fill people with emotion are “Who are we?” and, more ominously, “Who are we not?”

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