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REPORT: Chicago?s Progressive Tea Party: Below is our full video report from Chicago?s 4th of ?

By Glenn Reynolds

REPORT: Chicago’s Progressive Tea Party:

Below is our full video report from Chicago?s 4th of July ?Re-Tea? Party Protest. It was organized by a ballot access group called Free and Equal.

The strange thing about this Tea Party is that many of the speakers were progressives from the Green Party and Nader campaign! It was all very odd. They are against the two party system, but support national healthcare. They are against Cap and Trade, but believe in man-made global warming. They claim to be ?all partisan,? but boycotted the tax day tea parties because of Republican involvement.

What they did have in common with the average Tea Party protester was a sense of disenfranchisement and anger toward a dysfunctional two party system, but is that enough to bridge the socialist divide? Watch and find out.

I think there’s a lot of that sense of disenfranchisement regarding a dysfunctional two party system out there.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 07, 2009 (boomark / email).