January 15, 2011 09:42 AM UTC

T-Party uprisings spreading around the globe.

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• by: Barron X

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If you permit the T-Partiers to define themselves, then they might say that what unites them are concerns about:

*** the economy,

*** the expansion of government,

*** illegal immigration and

*** getting back to government according to the original Constitution.  

One poster here is convinced that we are motivated by racism and hatred of our President, and repeats that at every opportunity.  

Folks who self-identify with the movement tend to think that the thing that motivated them to “join,” if there was any one thing, was the bailouts of banksters by the Bush and Obama administrations.

According to Scott Rasmussen, Tea Partiers “… think federal spending, deficits and taxes are too high, and they think no one in Washington is listening to them, and that latter point is really, really important.”

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So, what happened in Tunis this week ?  

Their T-Party, loosely based on the same concerns as the local T-Party here in Colorado Springs, took to the streets, and their President for life skipped the country (leaving his wives behind.)

Before that, T-Partys in Greece, France, the students’ revolt in England and the protest movement in Europe sprung from the same or similar seeds.  The connection is that the seeds of the Tunisian uprising have been in issues related to unemployment, marginalization, corruption, etc., issues that have been exacerbated by the international Great Depression.

Thus the causes of the Tunisians are in tune with the causes of the rest of us, including in Europe and the rest of the world.

In the current international situation, the stage is set for more revolts like the ones we have seen.

largely cribbed from a comment by Nadim at https://www.juancole.com/2011/0…

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