I stand with Alan Grayson. The Tea Party IS like the Ku Klux Klan.

[Bill USA]

this probably has been posted before, but it deserves another shot, if only for those (like me) who missed it!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/23/1250073/-I-stand-with-Alan-Grayson-The-Tea-Party-IS-like-the-Ku-Klux-Klan#


The Tea Party IS very close to the Ku Klux Klan. They're only at the barely-veiled-threat stage of the violence spiral, but they've got that same violence gene as the Klan. They've certainly got the same bigotry.

Alan Grayson has nothing to apologize for. He made a valid comparison, which shows how dangerous the Tea Party really is.



Let's keep the comparison going. How did the Ku Klux Klan look back in earlier eras? Look at their heyday, in the 1920's. The Klan was popular. The Klan was mainstream. It wasn't just a few meth-heads and child molesters wearing those white sheets back then. The Klan numbered in the millions, they were part of mainstream politics, they had political machines that got their people into elected office, and they wielded power.

Sound familiar?

[gopiscrap]

1. the entire gop is racist.

[TheKentuckian]

2. That is wwhat have to say. Alan bites his tongue too much here.

[gopiscrap]

3. agreed

[krispos42]

4. Only two kinds of people wave the Confederate battle flag in public.

Civil War re-enactors, and racists.


Red tee-shirt ≠ butternut uniform

Baseball cap ≠ forage cap

Jeans ≠ Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled musket


Well, not a Civil War re-enactor, then.


That leaves...

[Auntie Bush]

5. I agree with anything Alan Grayson has to say. He's da man!

[Flash Garcia]

7. Where do these people fit in your theory,

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[Iliyah]

10. Stephen played by Samuel L. Jackson in

Django Unchained. Seen the movie? If not, see it. Its spot on of how a some slaves had undeniable love for their masters.

[freshwest]

8. They also included religious leaders and government officials. Beware, history repeats.

Check out the Tenther Movement, which is really based on the Confederate secession model. This has been accepted and used for various causes already.

[Snake Plissken]

9. It's more a mind control cult than the Klan

The Tea Party is a mind control cult created by a couple of billionaires to convince some of the stupidest people on the planet that they need to fight to have our government line the the pockets of billionaires with even more money.

[calimary]

11. THIS^^^^!!!

Man, Snake Plissken! Nailed! In ONE sentence!

"The Tea Party is a mind control cult created by a couple of billionaires to convince some of the stupidest people on the planet that they need to fight to have our government line the the pockets of billionaires with even more money."

[Doc_Technical]

12. There's an old saying that goes something like this:

The only difference between the GOP and the KKK
is the thread count in the sheets.

[Bill USA]

13. LOL!!!!