Power Struggle
By Mitch Berg
The “Coffee Party” founder in danger of ouster, as coffee partiers (all fifty of them) want a more radical leader
Annabel Park says there’s no coup in the works to remove her as the leader of the Coffee Party movement and replace her with someone more angry, radical and willing to be confrontational with conservatives. But a recent article in Newsweek suggests otherwise.
Park, contacted through Facebook, criticized the Newsweek article and it’s author Steve Tuttle for quoting a woman at a Washington DC Coffee Party who said the movement would die “unless we get someone a little more powerful.”
The movement will die unless it comes up with a purpose deeper than “trying to act like they’re smarter than their competition…
April 27th, 2010 at 10:29 am
Too funny. This from the Coffee Party website. All viewpoints are encouraged, except for the ones that aren’t far left, and based simply in despising the right.
“Coffee Party USA aims to reinvigorate the public sphere, drawing from diverse backgrounds and diverse perspectives, with the goal of expanding the influence of the People in America’s political arena. We do not require nor adhere to any preexisting ideology. We encourage deliberation guided by reason amongst the many viewpoints held by our members. We see our diversity as a strength, not a weakness, because we believe that faithful deliberation from multiple vantage points is the best way to achieve the common good”
April 27th, 2010 at 10:32 am
What I think is hilarious? Fighting to control a non-entity “movement”.
I mean, why not just start a more-radical “Latte Party”? Conduct a purge of the revanchist Chai Party wreckers, and move forward?
April 27th, 2010 at 10:41 am
I mean, why not just start a more-radical “Latte Party”?
They don’t want the snooty “Cafe au Lait Party” people trying to exert Euro-uptown high style/good life influences over the “live simply so that others can simply live” ideals of the core coffee party. Additionally, the “Machiatto Party” is views by some as dirty and corrupt. And everyone’s afraid of the “Frappucino fringe” and their frothed, spittle-flecked rantings that give the whole movement a bad name.
April 27th, 2010 at 10:47 am
Annabel is crestfallen to learn she is a Menshevik.
April 27th, 2010 at 11:47 am
Park, contacted through Facebook
Good God. I remember sitting in J-School classes where we were instructed NOT to use e-mail to contact a source.
Just when I think a profession couldn’t get any lazier. . .
April 27th, 2010 at 11:54 am
Ah ah, Mr. D. Personshevik.
April 27th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Personshevik.
Yeah, probably right Jeff. Although that might be spelled Persynshevik.
April 27th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
ahem, Mensheviks were the good guys…
April 27th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
What a fraud Leninism was.
According to Marx, primitive, agricultural societies passed through a period of bourgeois exploitation — aka, an industrial age — before the internal contradictions inherent in Capitalism caused its collapse and the eternal Golden Age of Communism began.
Not fast enough for Comrade Lenin, Comrade Trostsy, and Comrade Stalin.
So they used their muscle to depose Kerensky and take total power. The murder of millions followed shortly afterward.
Lenin and Trotsky were bourgeois. Stalin was a psychopathic bank robber. Together they exploited the labor of working men and women to satisfy their longing for power.