Comparing 2013 TEA Party to the 1923 Ku Klux Klan
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Question: Is it reasonable to make such a comparison?
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Yes. They both represented the fifth most conservative quintile of voters and fifth to two fifth most conservative pols in their respective day and ages.		  
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No. The problem isn't that they are too conservative, its that people who make the comparison are too liberal. The Klan would lynch Catholics (Santorum), Hispancis (Cruz) and Blacks (Cain), even if they agreed with them.		  
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The tea baggers suck but this is basically Godwin's Law lite.		  
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« on: October 23, 2013, 12:52:54 PM »
 1, obviously.
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« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2013, 01:42:25 PM »
3.

This "TEA=KKK" stuff is adorable considering how many of the people posting it will be wringing their hands the next time Krazen calls Obama a Marxist.
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« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2013, 01:51:20 PM »
3 is the answer for non-hacks.
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« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2013, 02:15:03 PM »
Option 3, except this is actual Godwin's law, just modified.
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« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2013, 02:28:40 PM »
If only there was a comparison.
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« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2013, 02:59:26 PM »
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« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2013, 03:08:21 PM »
3-it makes about as much sense as the insane "Obama=Satan" type comparisons we see from the far right.
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« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2013, 03:39:37 PM »
Although, I think that comparing the TEA party to the 1920s KKK is different than comparing them to the SA or those in the second quarter of the 20th Century that were much more rightwing than them.
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« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2013, 06:15:11 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2013, 06:28:54 PM »
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« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2013, 06:56:18 PM »
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« Reply #11 on: October 23, 2013, 07:38:56 PM »
3.  I don't care for the Tea Party by any stretch of the imagination, but this is ridiculous.
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« Reply #12 on: October 23, 2013, 08:11:42 PM »
The Tea Party is not a single organization with a singular agenda. You know what group in 1923 is a better comparison to the views of the Tea Party?  Americans as a whole. 
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« Reply #13 on: October 24, 2013, 12:03:37 AM »
« Edited: October 24, 2013, 12:05:22 AM by ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ »
Pretty reasonable. Look at who got the endorsements of the Club for Growth and the Senate Conservatives Fund for US Senator.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/gop-senate-candidate-spoke-neo-confederate-conference-august
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« Reply #14 on: October 24, 2013, 04:57:54 AM »
There are obvious lines of continuity and obvious differences. Shrug.
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