The Canadian Tea Party

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Adrian Campbell Montgomery

Adrian Campbell Montgomery appeared in SiCKO and is business manager of Labor Notes

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July 29th, 2011 4:37 PM

I think The Tea Party is really awesome! No not that Tea party, Canada’s Tea Party, eh? One of my favorite bands has reunited for a series of concerts, their name: The Tea Party. They are a 3 member band that was around from 1990 – 2005 and they hail from Windsor, Ontario Canada. They are back, but to my excitement I can’t shout it out loud here in America. Why? Their name will make people think of the politics not the music.

Last night I found out they would be performing in Windsor. I said to my husband, “I wish we could go to The Tea Party show in Windsor.” He looked at me like I had lobsters crawling out of my ears. Puzzled, he replied, “Are you kidding me? The Tea party has made its way into Canada?”

Prior to the rise of the political group, when I heard the words the tea party I would think of the music. It reminded me of the time I saw one of their last performances. Sitting outside on the river front in Windsor, Ontario, listening to the progressive rock sounds combined with Indian and Middle Eastern influences, dubbed "Moroccan roll." It was an amazing time.

Now when I hear the words the tea party, I think of the political damage that has been done to this country, and it makes me sick. I want for them to change their name to something more suiting. Perhaps the Party of Confused Liars, I don’t think there is a band that’s named that. How can they call themselves the Tea party, when they don’t make beautiful music, instead they sound like a dozen cats getting ran over in the back alley. All we hear from them is the screaming of cutting taxes for the wealthiest people in America, but make the working class Americans pay for it.

Both the band and political tea parties can be very mesmerizing. One can get lost in the music of The Tea Party, and we see people that get sucked into the political craziness of the Tea party. The difference is, when the music stops, people go home and return back to reality. With the political party, well that never stops; it’s a constant drone of insanity

The political Tea party must change its name or go away; because if the band The Tea Party were to play a local venue here in the states, I’m afraid hundreds of Michele Bachmann supporters would show up expecting a rally. It’s an odd feeling, knowing that across the river from my office in Detroit, the words tea party has an opposite implication.