WHEN THE TEA PARTY WANTS TO GO BACK, WHERE IS IT TO?
BY HAROLD MEYERSON, WASHINGTON POST:
As battle cries go, the Tea Party's "Take our country back" is a pretty good one. It's short and punchy, and it addresses a very widespread sense that the nation that Americans once lived in has changed, and not for the better.
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When the Tea Partyers get around to identifying how America has changed and to whose benefit, however, they get it almost all wrong. In the worldview of the American right -- and the polling shows conclusively that that's who the Tea Party is -- the nation, misled by President Obama, has gone down the path to socialism. In fact, far from venturing down that road, we've been stuck on the road to hyper-capitalism for three decades now.
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As battle cries go, the Tea Party's "Take our country back" is a pretty good one. It's short and punchy, and it addresses a very widespread sense that the nation that Americans once lived in has changed, and not for the better.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqpwh-krpIHc750q3Qfn-KPKr0ZiVZfuz87xQkCW9LLY-R4b7A10EjlhE4qP5C_MQ15ernmQfjggavuNcHlLyF6JsaJvHh3M9_RXaFNq1bGoKvOSHD2Hvn62FRTkINiNERhrm33A/s400/tea-party-11-1.jpg)
When the Tea Partyers get around to identifying how America has changed and to whose benefit, however, they get it almost all wrong. In the worldview of the American right -- and the polling shows conclusively that that's who the Tea Party is -- the nation, misled by President Obama, has gone down the path to socialism. In fact, far from venturing down that road, we've been stuck on the road to hyper-capitalism for three decades now.
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