The Chicago Tribune editorial lede tantalizes:
Many Latinos have grown frustrated by the failure of Democrats and Republicans to craft a comprehensive reform of national immigration policy. Those disaffected voters may have a new home: the Tequila Party, an independent, grassroots effort designed to mobilize Latinos much as the tea party movement has seized on the anger and frustration of fiscal conservatives.
Hang on a sec… grassroots efforts are not, by definition, “designed.” They spring up from the ground all on their own, like, uh, something I can’t quite remember. Anyway, let’s read the next sentence and see what’s really going on:
The Tequila Party remains more an idea than a movement, but you can imagine the possibilities if it were to take off.
“Imagine?” Oy. The Tequila Party will go the same way as the Coffee Party, The Other 95% and No Labels.
Frankly, I hope the Tequila Party takes off, because it’ll mean the dem voters will be split. Please, oh please! I can’t imagine many non-Hispanics supporting it, if it has one issue…
So all hail the Tequila Party!
I think the real question is: designed by whom?
The editorial takes nothing but passive voice in describing the vapor movement yet someone must be attempting to organize something. The fact that they hide the identity of the designers says a lot.
The Tequila party must be designed because the leftists world view is grounded in elitism. They see all politics as being a battle between good elites and bad elites with the majority of the population being passive sheep. Each group of elites tries to herd the sheep in using various forms of manipulation. Of course, the leftists see themselves as the unselfish, altruistic elites just trying to do what is best for the sheep.
You can see this by the way that leftists respond to the accusation that they are elitist. They will respond with a variant of, “We’re not elitist! Just look at all the things we do FOR ordinary people!” Leftists take elitism so for granted that they forget that elitism isn’t defined by who benefits but by who decides.
That is why when the Tea Party was just staring, the Left immediately began to try to figure out which non-leftists elites were “really behind” the movement. They simple could not and cannot believe that the ordinary people can think and act on their own with elitist direction.
This Tequila party won’t take off precisely because it is designed top-down by elite leftists and does not represent a spontaneous, self-organized, bottom up phenomenon like the Tea Party. If the party does appear, you can check how real it is by checking its stance on abortion. A real bottom up Hispanic organization will be pro-life.