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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums10 Reasons Why the Tea Party is So Unpopular
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/tea-party-more-unpopular-ever1. They really dont care about America as a nation. For the past 25 years, Pew said that polls routinely find that about 55 percent of American voters want representatives in Congress to put local concerns ahead of what they think is best for the country. Tea Partiers disproportionately take that view. Among Tea Party Republicans, fully 76 percent say members should vote against a bill their constituents oppose, even if he or she thinks it is in the best interest of the country, Pew said. Just 22 percent say the lawmaker should prioritize the national interest.
2. Forget national solutions to national problems. Since three-quarters of Tea Partiers value a confederacy of GOP-run provinces more than an effective national government, its not surprising that they are always talking about making government smaller. But, as Pew found, that rhetoric means dismantling big public programs and overlooking public needs that were behinf their creation in the first place.
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3. They dont believe in new government debt. Despite all the warnings by economists and even foreign leaders, such as Italys prime minister speaking at the White House on Thursdaywho feared a default would raise global interest rates and spark a downward spiral69 percent of Tea Parties said it was not essential to raise the U.S. debt limit, Pew said. That was 25 percent higher than non-Tea Party Republicans, Pew said.
4. They think Wall St. should be deregulated. Even though 2008s global economic collapse started on Wall Street with bad bets by investors on the U.S. housing market, 79 percent of Tea Partiers say that government had gone too far with regulating financial institutions, Pew said. That was 26 percent higher than non-Tea Party Republicans.
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10 Reasons Why the Tea Party is So Unpopular (Original Post)
xchrom
Oct 2013
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Warpy
(111,467 posts)1. They're exactly the same fascists who gave us the Moral Majority
only this time their funders have convinced them to accept a bigger dose of Ayn Rand style social Darwinism. They were vile in the 80s and the intervening decades have not improved them.
That's why they're about as popular as bot fly larvae.
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)2. John Birch Society = Moral Majority = The Tea Party
They just keep painting the turd a different color and suckers fall for it.........
sendero
(28,552 posts)3. The Tea Party..
.... is just another front/name for Libertarian thought. The thought that brought you the economic crisis of 2008, the ensuing Great Recession, and these morons are simply too stupid for words.
Fortunately, Americans are starting to get a handle on what happens when you implement these policies and they are not buying it.
spanone
(135,950 posts)4. because they embrace ignorance