toldailytopic: The Tea Party movement.

[Ecumenicist]

It was only a few years ago that progress was symbolized by smoke stacks, acid rain, and dead fish in lake Erie. I guess progress is always considered bad by somebody.

Interesting that the term progress shifted from the industrialist side to the conservationist side.

Interesting that conservationists are liberal, and industrialists are conservative.

Crazy world where words change sides but people don't.

 

[elected4ever]

It was only a few years ago that progress was symbolized by smoke stacks, acid rain, and dead fish in lake Erie. I guess progress is always considered bad by somebody.

Interesting that the term progress shifted from the industrialist side to the conservationist side.

Interesting that conservationists are liberal, and industrialists are conservative.

Crazy world where words change sides but people don't.

Progreshion and the Progressive Movement are totally differant. We all progress in our lives with knowledge and experence. The Progressive movement is lawless and its pholosophy is the end justifies the means.

 

[MaryContrary]

Progreshion and the Progressive Movement are totally differant. We all progress in our lives with knowledge and experence. The Progressive movement is lawless and its pholosophy is the end justifies the means.

Hey, at least he recognized something fishy about changing the meaning of a word. Most liberals don't get that.

 

[WandererInFog]

Long term impact doesn't looking terribly likely at the moment, as the tea party simply doesn't have enough of coherent agenda. There's lots of anger, for example, about taxes and government spending but not a coherent plan for making the sort of major changes that would be required to stop budget deficits in the short or long term.

Short term, however, they are likely to impact the 2010 elections but the exact nature of that impact is difficult to ascertain at the moment, as they could either sweep the Republicans back into power or fracture the Republican Party and allow the Democrats to remain in power despite the broad based public discontent with them. We have examples already of them doing both, with the Mass Senate Race and the NY-23 congressional race respectively, and which of those models (or what combination of them) will play out in November this year remains difficult to predict.

 

[Defender009]

It's really too early to speculate very much on its impact, although there is certainly nothing wrong with trying.

 

[chrysostom]

It's really too early to speculate very much on its impact, although there is certainly nothing wrong with trying.

don't we speculate because it is too early to know?