Break Out the Fosters, Tea Party in Australia
Call the Mad Hatter, he's got a new cup to pour. Following the example of the Tea Party - you know, the whacked out anti-government, anti-tax, anti-commonsense political group - in the United States, Australia now has its own Tea Party.
Celebrating the political movement to eliminate high and continuing taxes, the Tea Party is gaining steam in America with some Republican candidates being replaced with so-called Tea Party candidates. Sadly, while their basic ideals aren't so loony, the people they are propping up to push the ideals are loony as hell. I mean, in the States the figurehead is Sarah Palin. 'Nuff said there.
However, this Tea Party won't be propping up any delusional right wingers to run for political office. It seems they are keeping themselves in the "movement" category. You know, like a cult without the fancy robes.
"We’ve been around for a little while but we made a conscious decision not to involve ourselves at the last election - we’re not a political party, we are a political movement; we influence parties that already exist," said spokesman David "just call me the website editor" Goodridge.
Right now, it appears as if the Australian clone of the Tea Party (they currently receive no funding or other support from the U.S. Tea Party so we can't call them a branch) is just spreading their opinions about the current political atmosphere rather than trying to place candidates in power that can actually do something.
That's the next step. Just like it started here - as a movement - it soon became a political platform, and now we have Tea Party candidates running for office. It's great that we have this political freedom in the world, but at some point, the people will decide if the Tea Party is any better than say, the Howard Dean liberals of the world.
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