The Coffee Party is new and many of their statements echo Occupy Wall Street.
Their goal is three fold:
- Campaign finance reform
- Wall Street reform
- Tax code reform
They have several interesting sayings including:
The middle class is too big to fail"
and
"Wake up and stand up."
They have a website: http://www.coffeepartyusa.com
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The Coffee Party has been around a couple of years, came about in reaction to the TEA Party and it's some times raucous members.
Being a TEA Party proponent when the Coffee Party had their initial round of meetings I went to see what the other side was about, as it turned out their major concerns were not that different than the TEA Party;
Corporate influence in the Government was the largest concern expressed by the attendees in that initial meeting.
I see they have refined their 'platform' but still their concerns are not that far from the TEA Party concerns.
The Koch-funded and lobbyist organized tea party makes up whatever "facts" it wants to support its one single goal - to protect the super rich from taxes and open up more tax loopholes for the corporations - while trying to increase taxes on the middle class and working poor.
The tea party is focused on hatred of government, protection for the super rich, and putting more of the burden on the middle class and the working poor. In short, the tea party is the bigoted, extremist, libertarian wing of the Republican party that believes only those people who are "the right kind of Americans" count.
Which is why the tea party is so rabidly vocal about things that aren't even true while the Coffee Party works to find solutions to real issues.
If being leary is because of what the two major parties are and have been doing, the solution is more parties - with elected office holders - so more of the people and their views/solutions will be at the lawmaking tables. All there is now is the objectives of the far right and far left.
I believe one of the things that really needs done is to make sure that citizens know how to participate in their self-governance. The major parties, and the big money, like things the way they are, so they're not going to voluntarily do anything differently - they'll have to be forced. Best way I've though of is to elect a president who isn't beholden to either the Republicans or Democrats for his election.