Nobody knows what the Tea Party stands for except the participants, but nobody knows what the Tea Party officially stands for except the organizers. The organizers depend on the participants and the participants are drawn by media interpretations. And it gets more fuzzy. This is why I'm glad I make my money in the systems business. I couldn't possibly feel that I had any integrity if my money came from the ability to convince people through rhetoric. A part of me would die doing that.
Anyway, here's the news that I should just throw into the mix. It's interesting because there are charges and counter-charges. According to some Freepers, who are just about as manic as any activists get, there's a dude named Jason Levin from Portland who owns a domain and website called Crash the Tea Party.
Their aim is to infiltrate and subvert the Tea Party:
In an effort to propagate their pre-existing propensity for paranoia and suspicion... We have already sat quietly in their meetings, and observed their rallies.
Whenever possible we will act on behalf of the Tea Party in ways which exaggerate their least appealing qualities (misspelled protest signs, wild claims in TV interviews, etc) to further distance them from mainstream America and damage the public's opinion of them. We will also use the inside information that we have gained to disrupt and derail their plans.
Classic espionage.
It's not a joke. The bulletin board is slashdotted half the time. According to what I can figure out, there are 1200 users doing stuff at any one time. I got that from the error messages I received after timing out a couple times.
I have to say that this is precisely the kind of stuff that sometimes makes me worry about American society in the digital age. I say sometimes because people have to eat, and that's something that really can't be faked. But people also have to think and that's something that's easily fraudulent - this level of deception and fakery is likely to propagate and such propaganda poisons the public sphere. As it is, normally rational people have abandoned the sense God gave them in order to shout into the windstorms of political frenzy. I'm wasting a perfectly good Sunday morning commenting on the madness.
But I do want to draw attention to the fundamental deception at the heart of any system that does not employ the discipline of a sacred oath. Instead, we see the exploitive nature of undermining the opposition by any means necessary.
Who's for real? What if this is actually a Tea Party member's way of justifying what they do by propping up some non-existing front? What if it's an anti-Tea Party conspiracy to suggest the lengths to which Tea Partiers will go to accuse the Left of skullduggery? What if... And there you have it. The infinite regress of what you believe the others believe. All based on getting a sign smaller than a Tweet shown on television. This is the democracy of illiterates.
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