# Whence the Tea Party...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whence-the-tea-party/555707>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 1, 2010, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whence-the-tea-party/555707 "2010-10-01T11:12:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whence-the-tea-party/555707/42 "2010-10-02T22:55:39Z")

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> [@A question for those who lean left...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-those-who-lean-left/555287/62):
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> **Starving Artist** today:
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> > [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> > One thing we do know about the Tea Party is that as a group they are better educated and wealthier than the general population. This tells me they are likely smarter than the general population too.
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> **Starving Artist** three days ago:
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> > [@A question for those who lean left...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-those-who-lean-left/555287/62):
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> > …I would point out, **Brain Glutton** , that merely attending college is not any kind of reliable measure of innate intelligence, and intelligence alone is not any kind of measure of judgement, wisdom, self-discipline and things like that.

Dude, you totally took his statement out of context. What he was trying to say was that he’s right and you’re wrong. Why are you attacking him?! I don’t see you attacking other people that post stupid shit.

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