This is what grassroots looks like

The thing that makes the Tea Party so execrable, so foul and unpalatable and disingenuous, is that it was built by FOX News using FOX News money and directed by FOX News executives. It started as astroturf, as a simulacrum of grassroots, and after it reached a critical mass of people duped into believing they were fighting for lower taxes for everybody, the movement picked up steam.
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This is what grassroots looks like
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Maddow on voting on minority rights

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This is why your Constitution wants to protect minorities from the tyranny of majority rule by suggesting that certain rights are inalienable. Because every time you put questions to a vote where the majority is against a minority’s rights, the minority loses. Because it’s a minority. It’s a simple matter of math.

The “personhood bill” idea is disgusting. Especially the parts where birth control is equivalent to murder. And worse than that — it’s working.

The privileged sure do love to ban things that would level the playing field for the unprivileged.

Maddow on voting on minority rights