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To: Sdgla who wrote (281067)11/12/2013 3:37:05 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
If they sell out their principles to "rationality," they will lose the last bit of respect left for them.

One can be rational in as much as it is tactical. But you cannot rationalize being something that you are not. So fighting off the Obamacare after the Supreme Court had upheld it and it had won the votes was stupid and irrational. But if Tea Party ever loosens its stance or stops fighting for what they believe in because it is not expedient, then they are done.

Tea Party was an angry reaction to a large extent to hand outs to the bankers. That was a valid point. But then the movement was hijacked by those who feared where a principled stance like that can lead. They created petty distractions that on the whole made Tea Partyers seem like fringe rabied right wingers (at least to the outsiders) rather than capitalizing on the legitimate points movement had.

Finally, we need at least a third party and I'd say we should probably have 5 national parties so people can have adequate choices. There are serious structural problems with the US political system that will not allow that. But I will pick that up in my post to Carl.

ST

PS The point of the article links I posted to you was that if you are willing to be a pragmatic libertarian, then there are a lot of good things that can come to the society. But of course that creates cognitive dissonance for the ideologues :-/
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