A Bible for the Tea Party

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/07/31/a_bible_for_the_tea_party.html


A Bible for the Tea Party


Ken Vogel notes that a three-year old book, The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, has become a bible for the Tea Party movement.

The thesis: "Poorly funded groups and companies loosely organized around basic shared ideas can change society, often by outmaneuvering governments or mega-corporations."

"The title is based on the contrasting biology of spiders, which die when their heads are chopped off, and starfish, which can multiply when any given piece is severed -- a trait the book's authors posit is shared by decentralized entities ranging from Alcoholics Anonymous to Al Qaeda to Wikipedia."

[msongs]

1. teabaggers party is wholly owned subsidiary of the republican party, NOT leaderless nt

[oberliner]

2. Starfish also don't have brains

Echinoderms have rather complex nervous systems, but lack a true centralized brain.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Too bad true analogies (poor analogies?)

are lost on so many Tea Party members.

I remember these same people screaming about how dare those "libruls" include their own personal issues and agendas at rallies and protests...the GLBT, the Vets Against War, The ACLU supporters, etc....and here these same people find it so important to pick personal issues, agendas, and parade those at rallies and protests, often exhibiting such total selective ignorance as to why they are even there (let's not even get into the illiterate signage :eyes: )