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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had this flag in graduate school.  I'm an economist, a libertarian, and at the time (early 2000's) the flag and symbol was broadly associated with promotion of civil liberties.  Then around 2010, the Tea Party usurped my symbol for their numb-skullery.

I would never judge someone who has this license plate.  They may just be a live and let live libertarian like myself.  [/quote]

As a Tea Party supporter, I am not sure that any of you clueless types have an idea about what the movement is/was.  Basically, [b]it started with a correspondent on CNBC complaining about the level of taxation and regulation in the bail-out packages.  The movement recognized that the federal government has become so large and so involved in the minutiae of our private lives that there is no real FREEDOM.[/b]  Guns are one aspect of the Bill of Rights, but I would be willing to bet that a substantial number of Tea Partiers do not own guns.

There are lots of people who feel that the current iteration of federal control is excessive.  This doesn't make them bad neighbors.[/quote]

While I concur with your factual accounting of how the "Tea Party" was born ("tea" actually stood for "Taxed Enough, Already"), I dispute the premise that we as Americans are overtaxed or there is no real "FREEDOM."

The USA is actually a low-tax nation relative to the rest of the developed world, and we have plenty of freedom. The perceived thread on "freedom" really had to do with resentment among some people that they couldn't be openly hostile to certain minority groups, hence the griping about "political correctness" (which normal people view as "common human decency."  Anyway, you see where that resentment led us.

The other mistaken premise is that the USA is the only country with freedom -- that this is somehow some unique, sacrosanct feature, when in fact most of the world's countries have "freedom." [/quote]

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