just like the founding fathers?
the tea party movement has had a bright light shone on it in recent weeks: the final stop on the tea party tour landed in washington dc on tax day, the day after sarah palin spoke at a rally in boston. liberals think they’re crazy nut jobs and conservatives think they’re patriots. here’s the real story (or as real as it gets in a poll) on the group of folks that make up the tea party revelers:
- 18% identify as republican, white, male, and married, and older (more than 45 years)
- they’re angry with washington (other republicans say they’re dissatisfied)
- they think the taxes they paid in the prior year are fair
- they send their kids to public school
- they think social security and medicare are worth the cost to the public (explained as–they pay into the system so they want it)
- they don’t think sarah palin is qualified to be p.o.t.u.s.
- they’re likely to fill out and return their census forms
- they are more inclined to think that the current p.o.t.u.s. is favors the poor and blacks and that black people’s problems are over-emphasized
- 90% think the country is headed in the wrong direction economically
- 55% think that somebody in their household will be out of a job in a year (even though they think they are better off than the rest of the country financially)
- they don’t want a third party (they’ll stay republican, thank you very much)
- they say the goal of the movement is to reduce the size of government
here’s a link to the wikipedia reference on the founding fathers. much like the tea partyers, they were more white, wealthy, and educated than most. in contrast though, they were established political veterans. what do you think? how much were these dudes like the tea partying dudes?
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