Will The Tea Party Have A Sequel Or Have The Peasants Cried Themselves To Sleep Again

Most likely yes. The thing is Trout the people are divided and have different and diametrically opposed visions and wishes on how to move forward. Without questioning the uselessness of football mentality towards politics that haunts the vast majority of the people and isn't based on principles, ideology but on choosing a team and sticking with it, even going as far as defending the same policies you called outrageous when the other party was doing them.http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;… Without disputing the absurdity of that mentality and the damage it does, the idea that there's such a thing as 'we the people' and tries to obscure real political differences and even ideological divides, the whole 'false left right paradigm' story so to speak, is misguided and another political farce. Most proponents or talking heads pushing this notion are right wing and reactionary or even worse. There's a real and big difference between left and right wing politics. The US duopoly offers no choice, not because as the right wing demagogues out to muddy the ideological waters even further would have you believe right or left doesn't matter and it's just a game politicians play but because it's solely dominated by the right wing. In the right wing party of the duopoly the fringe holds all but veto power and when they are elected they go as far and beyond as they can, see Reagan and Bush. The 'left wing' party of the duopoly however preemptive already surrenders even the most basic demands all left wing people agree on. Most obvious example is gay marriage. All liberals/ leftists I know support legalization, see it as self evident yet their political representatives, all prominent Democrats ask civil unuions and refuse to even demand equal rights under the law. Where Republicans don't hesitate to push their ideological agenda far beyond what the American people are willing to take, Democrats who get elected, even if it's with a big mandate, bent over backward from the start in the name of bipartisanship and don't even genuinely fight for mainstream liberal/ leftist issues. Other examples include the wars, the patriot act, you know the list. Both parties of the duopoly are political instruments of the financial aristocracy, but the Republicans are the open advocates of big business. The Democrats pretend to defend the interests of the working people, while in practice serving the same corporate elite. This double-dealing role of the Democrats is expressed in their habitual spinelessness and insincerity. In an opposition role, the Republicans conduct themselves intransigently, while the Democrats bow and scrape, beg for "bipartisanship," and end up looking like the weaker party even when possessed, as now, of a sizeable majority. With a Democrat in the White House, the Republican minority in Congress today attacks and blocks administration legislation, using every available parliamentary device, like the filibuster. When they were a majority in Congress, the Republicans even impeached a twice-elected president, Democrat Bill Clinton, on trumped-up charges. The Democrats, by contrast, never availed themselves of the full powers of the legislature when, against their own expectations, they won a congressional majority in 2006. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ruled out impeachment hearings over Bush's illegal wars, spying on Americans, and countless violations of the Constitution. The Democrats would neither vote down nor filibuster the stream of "emergency" bills to continue the funding of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Republicans, despite their overwhelming repudiation at the polls only four months ago, have no compunctions about threatening a filibuster in the Senate against an emergency stimulus bill, under conditions of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, one which is driving up the jobless toll by better than half a million a month.http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/feb200… Left and right mater, bipartisanship is heavily overrated. All the things people complain about here most, the wars, the bailouts and so on, are in the final analysis the result of bipartisan duopoly politics which are fundementally right wing. The demand for bipartisan unity serves to obscure the objective reality of a society that is riven by class and social divisions. The agents of Wall Street who preach the gospel of “unity” have good reason to suppress any genuine political discussion. They preside over a country where the concentration of wealth has reached unprecedented levels, with the top 1 percent of families owning 40 percent of the nation’s net worth. And the economic disparities continue to grow.http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan200…