Maybe its time for a liberal/progressive tea party /nt

[still_one]

[d_b]

1. the corporate media created the tea party

they won't be doing that for us.

[emulatorloo]

4. And the Koch brothers and big corporations won't fund us either n/t

[Le Taz Hot]

11. But we can do that for us.

[Cleita]

2. I think we had one. It's now called the Green Party.

Too bad we can't convince them to come back to the Dems as a coalition within the Party.

[still_one]

5. I didn't mean quite that, but more that more progressives could take back the party from those that

have sold it down the river

[jobycom]

3. Progressives are much better when sane. nt

[Lil Missy]

6. We already have a spoiler Party. The Green Party.

[still_one]

7. I didn't mean that way, I meant for progressives values to come back to the party /nt

[pampango]

10. While they may have cost the repubs a couple of senate seats, I wouldn't call the tea party spoilers

They ran their candidates against what they viewed as "corporate" repubs in the primaries; won some and lost some; then supported the repub (teabagger or otherwise) primary winner in the general.

While a couple teabaggers who won their repub primaries (O'Donnell and Angle spring to mind) probably cost the repubs senate seats, the same could happen if a left wing "insurgent" ousted a "corporate" Democrat during the primaries.

I agree with nothing that the tea party brings to the table, but I don't think they are spoilers. They are just trying to take over the repub party from within, but don't go "third party" on repubs when they lose a primary.

[shireen]

8. There is one ....

Coffee Party
http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/

Good group. They need more publicity.

[Leopolds Ghost]

9. Sadly, you won't find much support here. We are no longer tied to any populist coalition since Dean

Where I live they're actively trying to divorce themselves from the New Deal, working class.

Voiceless within the party or within the community, just try talking to your better-off neighbors about social justice.

All they will do is rant about how you're wrong and how they are dissatisfied in the country for opposing centrist policies they wholeheartedly support.

[Le Taz Hot]

12. I hope this thread doesn't get pulled.

I agree, by the way. I voted SOME Democrat (Brown & Boxer and a couple others) but I voted Green for the rest. I just couldn't stomach voting for one more milquetoast career politician.

It would have been nice to have been able to vote for someone I really believed in (Boxer was the only one who fit that bill this year).

[a la izquierda]

13. Last night, I tore up my voter registration card.

I'll never, ever register or affiliate with Democrats again. If I like a Dem candidate, I'll vote for him/her. If not, I won't. I burst into tears when I heard Feingold lost, and I've never even been to Wisconsin. But the party has abandoned folks like me and leaders like him.
I'm just sick this morning.

[XemaSab]

14. Oh, we already have lots of those

The thing that makes the Tea Party powerful, much like the John Birchers and concerned citizens of yore, is that there's only one.

If there was ONE liberal/progressive activist group, then it would work in our favor. Unfortunately, DFA, MoveOn, Acorn, Kucinich's group that I forget the name of, and so forth are all working towards the same goals, but they're not working together at all, and the activist cadre divide their time between 5 different groups.

[Skidmore]

15. I thought we already had one...

I mean there appear to be a group of people stepping forward with the message of "that'll learn ya" and "we sure taught you a lesson."