More on the Tea Party

I enjoyed exploring the Tea Party forums especially surrounding the elections. It was interesting because while there was a consistant updating of the message boards leading up to the election a lot of the discussion remained very general. There was talk about what was important standards for the country to maintain and of course more on going hunting. I expected more political get out the vote messages, but there really was not that much of that. The only reason I could think of for this would be that the Tea Party forum that I visited is not necessarily for political unity, but social unity to communicate people that have shared values

I never actually participated in the discussions because it was not a place for debate, but agreement the "virtual community" was well established and I didn't feel that I could enter into the conversation.