Tea Party Ideology

Since the inauguration of President Obama, we have watched with horror how the Tea Party has taken over the GOP. What started up as a bunch of disgruntled misfits, has mushroomed into a larger movement and taken over the Republican Party. Arguably, they were aided and abetted by the libertarian oligarchs, David and Charles Koch’s hidden interests which financed and supported the groups with huge donations to their “cause” and candidates running on Tea Party platform. Gradually, we have seen GOP abandon its conservative core beliefs and shamelessly acquiesced to the irresponsible demands of this fringed group. The result is what is today the unrecognizable and clearly the un-conservative party formerly known as the GOP. Among other things, the Tea Party demanded ideological purity, views compromise as weakness, believes in fundamentalist scriptural literalism, vehemently denies scientific truths and are unmoved by facts or deterred by new information. They have a hostile fear of progress and actively demonize anyone who believes in education. They, like most conservatives have an inordinate desire
She has paid her due, put in the hard work. But instead of vetting her objectively, the so-called Berniebots or Berniebros (who are mainly inexperienced young people behind the unsuccessful “Occupy Wall Street” movement) have joined and/or fueled by clandestine conservative groups to mount attacks on the credibility of the former Secretary. It is indeed sickening to hear arguments against Hillary Clinton as being a hawk and other disingenuous criticism of policies she worked on while at the State Dept. People seem to forget that even as head of the State Dept., whatever policy she advocates is subject to the president’s approval. How can we justifiably separate her from the president she worked for? When you criticize her stewardship at the State Dept., one is effectively saying Obama is the same. But that is not what we’ve been hearing is