I knew nothing about the Tea Party, or let's say, nothing about American politics. By reading some of the forums posted by my classmate, I got some gist about who they are and what they do. Friday in class, we spent a lot of time clarifying the definition of the term "dense fact", and how the dense facts presented in the posts convey the essential idea of the Tea Party Movement. Our group talked about a cartoon that Shelby found.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/politicalcartoons/ig/Tea-Party-Cartoons/Republicans--Tea-Party-Problem.htm
Jake, Megan, Shelby and I talked about how the members of the Tea Party think that they are helping the Republicans and the country to stay on the right track but they are actually not doing any good. Surprisingly a lot of the forums about the Tea Party are negative aspects. Personally I don't think I have enough knowledge to judge or agree or disagree their principles. In Enich's blog, he said that "However, there's a trend in America right now claiming that all the tea partiers are crazies going around shooting guns calling everyone socialist Hitlers. Now, there are people that do that. And believing all of them are like that makes the tea party even easier to hate than it already is."Back to the point about them being hated, I do think that nowadays people don't have to the reason to dislike the party just because they feel like it or other people don't like it.
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