1. El Tea Party como Caso de Estudio de Astroturfing.
La mayoría de los comentarios identifican al Tea Party como un ejemplo clásico y bien documentado de astroturfing, una campaña de relaciones públicas diseñada para simular un levantamiento popular, pero impulsada desde arriba por intereses corporativos y mediáticos.
- The tea party protests were one of historys most textbook examples of astroturfing. They were backed by the koch brothers.
- Iirc, i think the rise of the tea party was when i first heard astroturfing used to mean fake grass roots activism.
- I wish they would stop comparing this to the tea party. The tea party was an astroturfing campaign!
- The tea party was widely hailed as an exercise in grassroots democracy. But others saw it as a classic example of astroturfing, a public relations charade designed to mimic a populist revolt. Fauxparty.
- The astroturfing of the tea party is what really kicked all of this into overdrive.
2. Financiación Oligárquica: Los Hermanos Koch y Otros Multimillonarios.
Se señala repetidamente a los hermanos Koch (a través de Americans for Prosperity) y a otros multimillonarios como Rupert Murdoch y los Mercers como los principales financiadores y arquitectos de la operación de astroturfing del Tea Party, así como de otros proyectos de derecha.
- The tea party was completely financed by billionaires.
- The tea party was astroturfing 101 for the koch brothers. It was no secret that they bank rolled it directly.
- The tea party taking over the gop was more of an astroturfing operation by the koch brothers. It wasnt bottom up.
- The tea party and the success of the john birchers happened because of billionaire astroturfing and a long con gambit to seize the judiciary.
- The tea baggers birthers were well funded astroturfing projects not autonomous grass roots actions. Same with moms for liberty koch bros mercers breitbart giving steven bannon millions to hack cambridge analytica.
- The tea party began with the koch brothers astroturfing rallies and such. Meanwhile, right wing media kicked in with their brainwashing.
3. Contraste con Movimientos Genuinos y la Izquierda.
Los comentaristas distinguen el Tea Party de movimientos que consideran orgánicos o de base (grassroots), y resaltan la falta de una infraestructura de astroturfing equivalente o de multimillonarios dispuestos a financiar causas progresistas o de izquierda.
- The tea party was built from astroturfing and conspiracy theories. This is organic and grassroots.
- Theres no kochs equivalent astroturfing for the progressives. Tea party had finances structure. Itll take that more to move these people and it isnt there nowyet.
- Well, theres definitely no astroturfing for the left. The right can scream about george soros all they want, but we all know thats not happening because left has no money.
- Who are the liberal kochs ready to fund the astroturfing to push the movement?
- We had a democratic tea party. They were referred to as bernie bros and they were smeared by the democratic entire establishment. Occupy was also pretty similar. The thing is the tea party took off because it was an astroturfing operation by the republican elite. It wasnt grassroots at all.
- America needs a tea party style take over of the democratic party, but the right wing version required vast astroturfing resources from the wealthy people who benefited from it, so i dont know if it is possible to do on behalf of regular citizens.