Coffee Party movement! I love coffee!

As a response to the ultra-conservative Tea Party Movement, there is now an increasingly popular Coffee Party movement.  I can totally identify with that as I: 1) consider myself liberal in my political views and 2) I love coffee.  The movement began with a simple Facebook rant by the movement's founder Annabel Park, who didn't intend to start a movement but once something like that sprouts wings, you just gotta let it fly.  This conjures up images of covert meetings in the corner of a Starbucks, which I would totally love to get invited to.  The movement now has a Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/coffeeparty as well as its own site http://coffeepartyusa.com/
 

                                                                        Smell the liberty


The idea of a Coffee Movement was probably inevitable.  You have roughly half of the U.S. that considers themselves some degree of conservative and roughly half on the opposite end of the spectrum that considers themselves a liberal to some degree.  There are, of course those who can't make up their minds or are apathetic to the whole thing, but let's pretend they don't exist for now.  Naturally, when you have a movement like the Tea Party Movement operating under false historic pretenses, you are going to anger some people.  I find the Coffee Party idea more attractive because it is geared more towards progressiveness.  It probably also has something to do with the fact that the Tea Party movement decided it would be a good idea to "tea bag" Washington.  That is just, well, gay.

                                                                        Tea bags = gay
                                                            
Will this really do any good?  Maybe or maybe not.  I doubt we will see our Democratic and Republican bipartisan government reinvented as a Tea Party versus Coffee Party government, but it makes Americans take notice.  To me, that is the most important thing here.  Use whatever catchy title you need to, but encourage Americans to do their homework, get interested, and change what they don't like.

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