Rude awakenings

[unixronin]

In which a well-meaning woman starts up a 'kinder, gentler, more civil' opposition movement to the Tea parties, and is surprised to find that it doesn't work out that way.  Two months in, and "her" movement is already fracturing because some of her members don't think she's mean enough or confrontational enough, and think that this idea of people working together is a load of sentimentalist codswallop.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

*nod* It seems to me the Coffee party defines itself almost entirely by being against the Tea party, and not actually really for much of anything.

-That the result of all this is a further polarizing of the political landscape, making the task of centrists like myself and Alaric (who is a leetle bit to the right of my centrism, though he seems to think I'm somewhere to the left of Lenin) more difficult.

Oh, come on. Lenin? Absurd. Now Trotsky, maybe ... ;)


(Actually, I must confess that a few times lately I've probably mentally conflated your position with that of other people I know and occasionally correspond with. No names mentioned, and quite unintentional on my part.)