Reply #30: Actually, I think the tea party might not even exist today if it had been

[RKP5637]

handled as you discussed. First I ever heard of the tea party was about taxes, too big to fail and the money lavished on wall street/banksters. Frankly, I agreed with some of what they were saying then, the money lavished on the monied. And still today, business as usual. As you said, most of us have been left out, "all the working people, for example." And IMO much of the base is still ignored.

I also think a significant opportunity was lost at that time to enforce more regulation on wall street/banksters. Instead, at least IMO, that came later and too late. They had their money for the most part and significant negotiation leverage had been lost IMO.