{"id":257,"date":"2010-02-09T04:37:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T11:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=257"},"modified":"2010-02-09T04:37:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T11:37:02","slug":"for-those-who-still-believe-in-working-within-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/09\/for-those-who-still-believe-in-working-within-the-system\/","title":{"rendered":"For those who still believe in “working within the system”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, couldn’t you just see it coming?<\/p>\n

How to undermine a movement: turn its values on their heads.<\/a><\/p>\n

Palin and the tea-party “movement”: nothing new.<\/a><\/p>\n

First, the R-party is taken over by neo-conservatives (who are, of course, neither new nor conservative). Then the L-party falls<\/a> into the hands of neo-cons. Now, only a year after its beginnings as a vigorous, Paulista, grass-roots movement for smaller government and fiscal common sense, the tea-party movement, too, has been co-opted by the same gang of warfare-welfare, centralized-power, to-hell-with-the-rule-of-law con artists.<\/p>\n

The specific power factions may come and go (or change their name and their rhetoric). But nothing ever changes in politics. It’s a trap for freedomistas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, couldn’t you just see it coming? How to undermine a movement: turn its values on their heads. Palin and the tea-party “movement”: nothing new. First, the R-party is taken over by neo-conservatives (who are, of course, neither new nor conservative). Then the L-party falls into the hands of neo-cons. Now, only a year after its beginnings as a vigorous, Paulista, grass-roots movement for smaller government and fiscal common sense, the tea-party movement, too, has been co-opted by the same gang of warfare-welfare, centralized-power, to-hell-with-the-rule-of-law con artists. The specific power factions may come and go (or change their name and…<\/p>\n

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