I stand with Grayson on this one, too, and the observation of this blogger:
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The Tea Party IS very close to the Ku Klux Klan. They're only at the barely-veiled-threat stage of the violence spiral, but they've got that same violence gene as the Klan. They've certainly got the same bigotry.
Not saying that TP
is the Klan at this point. This early in KKK history, the Klan wasn't even the Klan. Just a kernel of an idea that infected, grew and oozed its puss all over America. But within the TP, the elements are there. Can anybody deny this, especially the bigotry, after what some TPers brought us
during the elections? "Don't Re-Nig 2012", "Save White America", a poster ending with "Niggar" (because racists are also uneducated, I guess), "Monkey See, Monkey Spend" (this one held by a KID), "The Zoo Has An African Lion And The White House Has A Lyin' African", "Hang In There, Obama", complete with a
noose.
EDIT: This is just a very small sampling of what the Tea Party either hailed or turned a blind eye too. Good God- in the midst of all of this, a whole slew of powerful elected officials- including the Speaker of the House- held a Tea Party rally on the steps of the US Capitol. One by one, they let everybody know that they "stand with the Tea Party". Not one of them took on the racist shit, not one of them called for calmer heads. This is America, and it's chilling.
And then it all went viral, to the point where these sentiments (and worse) are a daily dose on blogs all over the country. YES. The element is there. If the Tea Party doesn't want the comparison, then they need to beat the element down. It isn't up to anybody but them, and in the meantime? Shining a light on this crap is vital.