Not for nothing, but as an old-timer around here..
Does anyone remember Ron Paul and the Tea Party? A fiscally conservative libertarian movement based on no war and an American first POV... became really popular and the media tried to shutter it - but they couldn't. It was too big.
So what to do?
TPTB created a new one, a Fox branded "Tea Party", and Fox would promote it, push it, etc.. Except it wasn't really an American first outside of a slogan, and completely gone was the anti-war message. It was almost the opposite of the Ron Paul one.
Sadly, within a few months the vast majority of people not online(in the know) thought the Tea Party, and thus all of Ron Pauls' accomplishments, were do to this bastardized Tea Party.
Watching it happen back then was brutal, watching it happen again is sickening.
Not for nothing, but as an old-timer around here..
Does anyone remember Ron Paul and the Tea Party? A fiscally conservative libertarian movement based on no war and an American first POV... became really popular and the media tried to shutter it - but they couldn't. It was too big.
So what to do?
TPTB created a new one, a Fox branded "Tea Party", and Fox would promote it, push it, etc.. Except it wasn't really an American first outside of a slogan, and completely gone was the anti-war message. It was almost the opposite of the Ron Paul one.
Sadly, within a few months the vast majority of people not online(in the know) thought the Tea Party, and thus all of Ron Pauls' accomplishments, were do to this bastardized Tea Party.
Watching it happen back then was brutal, watching it happen again is sickening.