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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

For instance, the tea party was not a grass roots movement. It's all about control.

It was originally a grassroots anti-immigration movement, which was then co-opted. That is how they deal with popular uprisings: they are taken over, subverted, or dismantled. Sometimes all three.

[–]fred_red_beans 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It may have originally been grassroots, but it wasn't anything until the promotion from fox news et al.

You're right about the infiltration of groups. Any group that gets close to some kind of power generally gets infiltrated, bought out, or taken down.