An article in The Nation magazine contends that the Tea Party movement of today may have something in common with the Know-Nothing movement of the 19th century. In their 1841 platform they called for "extending the term of naturalization to 21 years, restricting public office of the native-born (there's your birther movement), keeping the Bible in schools and resisting the 'encroachment of a foreign civil and spiritual power upon the institutions of our country'. Back then this meant the Vatican; today it's Davos, Bilderberg, the UN, the IPCC".
(Source: "Move over, Axis of Evil" by Alexander Cockburn. The Nation 3/22/10).
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