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Originally Posted by Kevin
I realize that Aaron Sorkin is kind of a political hack, but in the Newsroom finale, the main character does a monologue where he compares the Tea Party to the Taliban.
The point isn't that the Tea Party beheads people it disagrees with, but rather there are quite a few similarities between the Tea Party and the Taliban, and by extension most hard-right groups such as:
Ideological purity, compromise as weakness, a fundamentalist belief in scriptural literalism, denying science, unmoved by facts, undeterred by new information, a hostile fear of progress, a demonization of education, a need to control women’s bodies, severe xenophobia, tribal mentality, intolerance of dissent and a pathological hatred of the U.S. government.
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Have you been to a Tea Party event? I have been to many and I am calling bs on you as this is a truly a huge pile of crap. So you rely on demonizing those you disagree with and evidently know nothing about. Hmm... sounds like you may be the one a little closer to the Taliban.
So the OWS, the people that riot and destroy and the anarchists are more your people?