Liberals on this forum are irrational

[Anomalocaris]

If there is anything I want people to take away politically from talking with me, it is this:

1) Not all tea-party advocates are Nazis, racists, fascists, etc. The core of the movement is based on Libertarian values concerning freedom of individuals; the media tends to focus solely on the idiots of the movement without actually looking at the other people in it. There are large factions within the tea party who disagree with each other as well; some favour the death penalty, others oppose it; some are pro-choice, others are pro-life.

Libertarianism is not the core value of the TEA movement in the US. TEA party is not a monophelytic group with any real unifying core value. Instead it is an ad-hoc polyphelytic group of discordant interests unified mainly by the fact that each group within it is more strongly opposed to some specific interest in another polyphelytic group of interests termed "liberal" than it is to the other interests within the TEA movement, and therefore each find the other interests in the TEA group to be less repulsive political allies of convenience than the "liberal" group. Libertaianism is just a publically more seemly red herring for most of TEA party.

There are Libertarians in all walks of life, whether they are poor, rich, "middle class", white, black, coloured, uneducated, or have 4 PhD's. It isn't fair to stereotype us as a subset of the above, just as it isn't fair to stereotype all Democrats as socialists, or all Republicans as racists.

It may not be fair to the individual in TEA party movement to be branded racist, nor is it realistic for the opposition to overlook the fact that the individual, by joining the TEA party, seemingly conceeds that he finds less objection to racist interests within TEA party than he does to aspects of the liberal polyphelyic group of interests and agendas. For many of those sensitive to racism, opposition to racism ranks above well neign anything else as a litmus test. A TEA party non-racist thus fails the racism test by joining the TEA party and failing to denounce and act with same or greater entheusim against racist elements of TEA party as he does against interests within the liberal polyphelytic group.