So is the Coffee Party a progressive response to the Tea Party?
"It's a response to how they are trying to change our government," Park tells CNN. "It's their methodology that we are against. We may want some of the same things, but their journey is so alienating to us."
Park, who worked as a volunteer for Barack Obama's presidential campaign and Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia's 2006 campaign. says the Coffee Party is not "aligned" with any party and calls the two-party system out of date.
"It encourages people to think of politics as a kind of game, like a football game, in which there are two sides, and it's a zero sum situation. If one person wins, the other person loses. That's really not a healthy way to conduct collective decision making. That's not a democracy."
Park told American Morning that the bitter battle over health care is an example of how government is not working. Read more at cnn
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Coffee or Tea?
Definitely coffee. There is a coffee party movement--all the substance minus the nasty signs, minus the bigotry, minus the stupidity. Definitely coffee:
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