Ideology of the Tea Party

[Mordecai]

What the Tea Party wants is a smaller government they just think its too big and bloated right now. They just think its a good idea to go back to the constitution because the government would run better that way in their opinion and that's the way the framers intended the government to run in the first place.

What's wrong though is they want all the benefits of a big government (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and Department of Defense) without having to pay for it. They also don't seem to understand economics, how the government works, what the ACA does, or even basic arithmetic.

I don't think they find the 21st Century offensive its just different for them they are agonized that the government is 17-18 trillion dollars in debt.

They didn't object to the expensive wars and massive tax cuts.

[hopper]

What the Tea Party wants is a smaller government they just think its too big and bloated right now. They just think its a good idea to go back to the constitution because the government would run better that way in their opinion and that's the way the framers intended the government to run in the first place.

What's wrong though is they want all the benefits of a big government (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and Department of Defense) without having to pay for it. They also don't seem to understand economics, how the government works, what the ACA does, or even basic arithmetic.

I don't think they find the 21st Century offensive its just different for them they are agonized that the government is 17-18 trillion dollars in debt.

They didn't object to the expensive wars and massive tax cuts.

Well yeah they like their Social Security. They want the Government to keep their promise to older people on the topic of Social Security.  They think that increasing the payroll tax to sustain Social Security is a good idea.

ACA-They want they repealed and heath markets to go through interstate compacts.

I got the "Tea Party" stances on Social Security and ACA on the Tea Party Platform on "OnTheIssues.Org".

Medicare and Medicaid-I don't know their stance on that.

I think they understood basic arithmetic and how the economy works.

I don't believe the Tea Party Republicans that were elected in the 2010 mid-terms knew how to compromise with Democrats or even knew what the word compromise meant in political terms. They held government at a standstill for 3 years. Some of these guys even thought defaulting on the debt-ceiling increase was a good idea. Well hello to them!

Well what the Tea Party objects to is big spending and I don't think The Tea Party cares for George W. Bush's big spending either but your right there was no outrage about Bush W.'s spending when he was president I think except for Sean Hannity maybe.

[politicallefty]

If the Tea Party is anything but conservative, I'd love to see where the social liberals are within the movement. I don't see how it's anything but the religious right being bought out by the wealthy economic conservatives.

[hopper]

If the Tea Party is anything but conservative, I'd love to see where the social liberals are within the movement. I don't see how it's anything but the religious right being bought out by the wealthy economic conservatives.

Well there are Tea Partiers with libertarian views on some things but no the Tea Party is not Socially Liberal.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I've come to the conclusion that the Tea Party as such is little more than an experiment in Radical Behaviourism. Rather than seeing as a systemic ideology with 'meanings', 'intentions' and, of course, 'history' as well as other mental abstractions and effluvium, the 'ideology' of the Tea Party is merely a set learned stimulus-responses that were adapted to one particular environment - the kitsch culture of the 80s - but are now maladaptive in our present circumstances or among sane people.

Thus an image of Obama - regardless of context - makes them salivate with incoherent rage and acts as an stimulus to perform their 'speech acts': MUH WELFARE, MUH MILITARY, MUH BENGHAZI - like Pavlov's dog. The repetitiveness of this stimulus-response mechanisms merely shows how particularly well-trained, and ill-thought out, these things are with little but other stimuli-responses associating themselves together. Therefore an image of Gun or a Muslim = Obama = DO NOT WANT = MUH WELFARE, MUH MILITARY, MUH BENGHAZI. There is no 'depth' or 'sense' here just learnt associations and stimulus reactions.



One of the founders of Modern 'Tea Partyism', the psychologist B.F. Skinner, training pigeons how to relate Benghazi to Abortion rates by giving them food in their cages when they hit upon the right stimulus. In six months time all of these pigeons will write for right-wing blogs or the National Review

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Disappointing that I was infracted just for posting an eagle with the fasces. Though it was admittedly an exaggeration, the Tea Party (which is, for the record, not an organized entity) has many parallels with the proto-fascist movements of the 1920's.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

For some reason (perhaps his mention of pictures of Obama), I thought Gully's Skinner picture was Obama for a bit and I was like "he's gotten older and whiter).

[courts]

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I've come to the conclusion that the Tea Party as such is little more than an experiment in Radical Behaviourism. Rather than seeing as a systemic ideology with 'meanings', 'intentions' and, of course, 'history' as well as other mental abstractions and effluvium, the 'ideology' of the Tea Party is merely a set learned stimulus-responses that were adapted to one particular environment - the kitsch culture of the 80s - but are now maladaptive in our present circumstances or among sane people.

Thus an image of Obama - regardless of context - makes them salivate with incoherent rage and acts as an stimulus to perform their 'speech acts': MUH WELFARE, MUH MILITARY, MUH BENGHAZI - like Pavlov's dog. The repetitiveness of this stimulus-response mechanisms merely shows how particularly well-trained, and ill-thought out, these things are with little but other stimuli-responses associating themselves together. Therefore an image of Gun or a Muslim = Obama = DO NOT WANT = MUH WELFARE, MUH MILITARY, MUH BENGHAZI. There is no 'depth' or 'sense' here just learnt associations and stimulus reactions.



One of the founders of Modern 'Tea Partyism', the psychologist B.F. Skinner, training pigeons how to relate Benghazi to Abortion rates by giving them food in their cages when they hit upon the right stimulus. In six months time all of these pigeons will write for right-wing blogs or the National Review

yeah might as well just cordon off the site now. nothing more needs to be said about the 2010s

[MATTROSE94]

I guess the ideology of Tea-Party supporters depends on the area of the country. For example, most Tea-Party supporters that I know are pretty much straight libertarian in their vewpoints on nearly every issue ranging from economics to foreign policy and non-intervention in overseas wars. In addition, they also are stong supporters of Ron Paul and Gary Johnson. In the South and Midwest, however, most Tea-Party supporters seem to be sympathetic to the libertarians on economic issues, but are extremely socially conservative and favor a neo-conservative foreign policy.

[Randy Bobandy]

There is literally nothing libertarian about the Tea Party. Too significant a number of teabaggers openly align themselves with the religious right for their little "organization" to be considered libertarian in any respect whatsoever.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

There is literally nothing libertarian about the Tea Party. Too significant a number of teabaggers openly align themselves with the religious right for their little "organization" to be considered libertarian in any respect whatsoever.

Someone who happens to be both, and is from your state, would like to differ severely.

I'm a pro-life and pro-traditional marriage advocate. I'm also a subscriber to much of the Austrian School of economics which has been best articulated in recent years by Fmr. Congressman Ron Paul. I'm anti-aggressive war (Matthew 5:9), pro-environment from the view of respecting individual property rights. If you want to know anything else I'd like you to PM me.