Populist Reform of the Democratic Party
In reply to the discussion: The New Populist Movement: Organizing to Take Back America. [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)The Tea Party are fanatics: willing to sacrifice everything to their overwhelming power grab. The grassroots has taken over from the Astroturfing, but the astroturfing supports them, even if it's a bit off message. Unfortunately, there isn't sufficient distinction between the two so that good things can happen, like destruction or disaffiliation...
The kind of people we have, the kind we need, don't do that. They strive for healthy, balanced lives and keeping it all together so everybody is healthy and happy....if it came to any kind of conflict, they'd bug out. Their lives are not geared for total warfare. Very few ordinary people can do an Occupation, a Die-In, or other such theater. They have to stay alive and keep their dependent families alive.
We need a kind of political warfare that fits into the survival of ordinary people, and doesn't imperil their very existence.