Kind of sums up the Republican mindset, about 200 years behind the times. Stealing unrelated ideas from 1773. As Paul Krugman, describing the tea parties, put it:
"Republicans have become embarrassing to watch."Tell me again, what does taxation without representation by the King of England have to do with today's democratically elected government. Tea was dumped because England was making money on the taxes that were not voted on. What does that have to do with our current Congress and how are laws are passed? The Tea Tax went back to England. The taxes raised now are spent in America on Americans.
If the conservatives were looking for a historical image to get crazy white people fired up about half-truths and conspiracies, then focus all the problems of the day on a single person, usually a black person, they could have just called it a lynching and been more honest about it.
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