Quote from Covertibility:
"This obscurity has all changed. Their market has grown exponentially since 2008. Two reasons are Ellen Brown and Ron Paul, both of whom are opposed to the Federal Reserve. Their opposition gave negative publicity to the FED. This rallied the Tea Party troops. A third reason was the economic crisis in the fall of 2008 and the Federal bailouts of the banks. The Greenbackers are riding the growing wave of opposition to the Federal Reserve System.
The strategic problem is this: the Tea Party movement is filled with people who have no economic understanding. They cannot distinguish Ron Paul's opposition to the FED, based on the gold coin standard, from Ellen Brown's opposition, based on a fiat money standard. They are intellectually defenseless."
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The Tea Party is made up of the Gullable Generation, the middle aged morons who have believed every stupid thing, from McCarthy's Commie witchhunt to Generalissimo Bush's evildoers, since they were born. What else can one expect from people who get their healthcare from TV evangelists.