For a movement that’s supposedly a grassroots people’s movement, the Tea Party Nation has set up their National Convention (coming to Nashville in early February), to be anything but.
Or, perhaps, it’s too much of a people’s movement.
On their website they suggest that the people who can’t afford to go – it’ll cost the average Josephine around $1000.00 for the entire weekend – instead chip in “$10-20 dollars” which “would take care of most of the costs to a delegate.” The pitch continues, “This is not a huge investment money but information wise it will yield huge returns” and:
We want local tea party groups to select their best to meet with their peers from across the nation. The local tea party’s themselves know who will best represent them, bring the best ideas, and have the most desire to move this process of organizing to the next level.
This sounds an awful lot like the collectivist theories of Karl Marx.
Emphasize the interdependence of individuals? Check.
Priority of group goals over individual goals? Check.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts? Check.
Hey! The Tea Party really is a people’s movement!
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